256 MrscicAPiDJi:, 



by an olivc-browu pectoral band, the centre feathers being yellowish 

 bnff, with olive-brown margins ; sides of body orange, shading oif 

 into yellowish buff on the lower flanks and sides of vent ; under 

 tail-coverts fulvous-white ; thighs lavender-brown ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries yellowish buff, with dusky bases ; quills 

 brown below, fulvous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 4-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-95, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-9. (Mus. H. 

 Seehohm.) 



Obs. As in the case of the allied Indian species, T. rvJUatus, it is 

 evident that the male of T. ct/anunis takes some time to gain the 

 adult dross ; and that it breeds in the female plumage is shown by 

 Mr. Seebohm's specimens obtained on the Yen-e-saj' River at the end 

 of ilaj' ; both are dissected males. Pallas was partly aware of the 

 fact, for he says that the males and females are alike in plumage ; 

 but states that he also, on two occasions, procured brighter blue 

 birds, which he found very rare, and considered to be a variety. 

 Mr. Seebohm's males, kiUed in May and June 1S77, are in a dress 

 resembling that of the female, but rather more ashy brown above 

 and purer white below, the sides of the breast greyish brown ; the 

 flanks are brighter orange, and the white loral streaks are very dis- 

 tinctly indicated ; the quills are edged with olive-brown instead of 

 rufous-olive. 



Jlab. From the Ural Mountains across Siberia to China and 

 Japan. 



a. (S ad. st. Japan. Purchased. 



b, c. cJ $ ad. sk. East Siberia. Dr. Brandt. 



d. cJ imni. sk. Kultuk,S.E.of LakeBaikal, Warsaw Museum [E.]. 



Jan. 18, 1870 {Dr. Dy- 

 hutrski). 



e. c? juv. sk. IVisamskia Jurti, Ob River, Dr. Otto Finsch [C.]. 



Sept. 18, 187G. 



2. Tarsiger rufllatus. 



Nemura nifilata, Hoclqs. Icon. ined. Passeres, pi. 88 (Hodgs. no. 484) ; 



id. in Grai/s Zool Misc. p. 83 ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 27 ; Grai/, Cat. 



Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 69 ; id. Gen. P. i. p. ISO ; Pp. 



Consp. i. p. 300 ; Horsf. ^ lloore, Cat. P. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 299 ; 



Grm/, Iland-l. P. i. p. 222, no. 3186 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. 

 ^ P. p. 324. 

 Nemura cvamn-a, Hodgs. Icon, ined., Passeres, pi. 76. fig. 3 (Hodgs. 



no. 407) ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 27 ( $ , nee Pall.). 

 lanthia rufilata, Plgth, J. A. S. P. xvi, p. 132 ; id. Cat. B. Mm. A. S. 



P. p. 170; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 28, pi. 44; Ph/th, Ihis, 1867, 



p. 16 ; Proolcs, Str. F. 1875, p. 240, 1876, p. 229, 1877, p. 470. 

 lanthia cvanura, Jerd. P. Ind. ii. p. 146 {nee Pall.) ; Godwin-Attst. 



J. A. iSC P. 1870, p. 106. 

 "Nemui'a cyanura (Pall.)," Dresser, P. Eur. pts. Ixvii., Ixviii. (cJ ad. 



descr. et tig.) (nee Pall.). 



Adult male. General colour above dark ultramarine, brighter and 

 inclining to deep cobalt-blue on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 forehead also bright cobalt, extending backwards above the eye, and 



