29. TAESIGER. 257 



forming a distinct eyebrow ; least wing-ebverts bright cobalt, fonning 

 a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; remainder of wing-coverts and quills 

 blackish, edged with dark ultramarine, inclining to greyish blue on 

 the margins of the primaries ; tail-feathers dark blue, blackish on 

 their inner webs ; lores and feathers round the eye dusky blue-black ; 

 entire sides of the face dark blue, as well as the feathers bordering 

 the throat for the whole extent of the latter ; throat and centre of the 

 body below greyish white, inclining to pure white on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, the sides of the body bright orange, con- 

 trasting strongly with the breast ; thighs dull blue ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, slightly washed with fulvous, the edge 

 of the wing blue ; quills dusky browu below, lighter ashy along the 

 edge of the inner webs ; " bill dusky ; legs brown ; iris dark brown " 

 {Jerdon). Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-2, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, becoming gra- 

 dually more ashy blue on the rump, and bright cobalt on the upper 

 tail-coverts : least and median wing-coverts like the back, the 

 greater coverts and quills dark brown, margined with reddish olive, 

 more distinctly of the latter colour on the primaries ; tail blue, 

 blackish on the inner web ; lores buff; over the eye a faint indica- 

 tion of a greyish eyebrow ; round the eye a ring of buff-coloured 

 featliers ; sides of face and cheeks olive-brown ; throat bufiy white ; 

 fore neck and breast light olive-brown, extending onto the Hanks ; 

 centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; thighs dusky 

 brown ; sides of body bright orange, as in the male ; axillaries yel- 

 lowish buff : under wing-coverts whitish, with dusky bases ; quills 

 brown below, fulvescent along the inner web. Total length 5-2 

 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 3-15, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-95. 



Male birds are some time before they gain their full plumage, 

 and are known to breed in the olive-brown dress, resembling that of 

 the adult female. (Cf. Brooks, Stray Feathers, I. c.) 



Hah. Himalaya Mountains. 



a. cJad.sk. Cashmere. E.M.Langworthy, Esq. [P.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. N.W. Himalavas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



LP-]- 



c. (J ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.j. 



d. e, f. c? ad. ; ff, k, i. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.j. 

 2 ad. sk. 



k. Juv. sk. Nepal B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Tarsiger hyperythrus. 



lanthia hypervthra, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 1-32 : id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 170; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1842, p. 89, pi. 16. fig. 2; Jerd. 



B. Ind. ii. p. 147 ; Godivin-Austen, J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 106. 

 Nemura Lvperj'thra, Gray, Gen. B. ill. App. p. 8 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 300 ; 'llorsf. cV Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 299 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i.'p. 222, no. .3187. 



Adult male. General colour above dark purplish blue, the fore- 

 head brighter and more cobalt-blue, extending backwards over the 



