42 DICiEID^. 



and Eggs Ind. B. p. 159 (1873) ; Walden, in Bh/tlis B. Burm. 



p. 143 (1875); Z)rt(vVK*)- Otist. Ois. Chine, -p. 8-i (1877); Hume ^ 



Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 200 ; Hume, Sfr. F. 1879, p. 90 ; Scully, 



t. c. p. 2(5 ; Oafes, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 337 (1883). 

 Myzauthe (Micrura) ignipectus, Hodgs. in Grug's Zool. Misc. p. 82 



'(1844) ; Grag, Cat. JIamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 00 (1840). 

 Dicreum ignipectus, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 115, no. 1435 (1869). 

 Microclielidon iofnipectus, Beichenh. Handh. Scansorice, p. 244, 



Taf. dlviii. fig. 3796 (1853). 

 Adult male. General colour above glossy steel-green -with blue 

 reflexions ; wing-coverts like the back ; the greater series, bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, externalh' steel-green like 

 the back ; tail-feathers blue-black, with a steel-green gloss on the 

 outer web ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks glossy steel-green, 

 like the head ; the lores blacker ; throat and under surface of body 

 deep ochrcous buff, with a patch of crimson or deep scarleb on the 

 lower throat and fore neck ; down the centre of the breast a longi- 

 tudinal patch of black glossed with steel-green ; sides of upper breast 

 glossy steel-green : flanks olive ; thighs and under tail-coverts ochra- 

 ceous bufl' like the breast ; under wiug-coverts and axillaries white, 

 slightly washed with ochraceous buff or yellowish ; qnills dusky 

 below, whitish along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black ; irides 

 brown or blackish brown ; feet and claws dull or brownish black" 

 {Scully). Total length 3'6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-05, tail 1-2, 

 tarsus 0'5. 



Adult female. Different from the male, and wanting the glossy 

 plumage of the upper surface and the red spot on the fore neck. 

 General colour above olive-greenish, yellower and more olive on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median wing-coverts like 

 the back ; remainder of wing-coverts and quills dusky, glossed with 

 steel-green, externally edged with olive ; tail-feathers blue-black, 

 tipped with ashy brown, more plainly developed on the outer 

 feathers ; lores ochraceous buff ; sides of face and ear-coverts olive- 

 greenish like the head ; cheeks and under surface of body pale 

 ochraceous buff, more olive on the flanks and sides of body ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills dusky below, whitish 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black, base of lower 

 mandible plumbeous ; feet and claws blackish " {Scully). Total 

 length 3 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1'75, tail 1, tarsus 0-6. 



Young male. Bill black, grey at base of lower mandible ; gape 

 orange ; irides blackish ; feet and claws dull slaty ; the head partially 

 glossv dark green ; breast pale orange ; otherwise as in the female. 

 {Scuily.) 



Ohs. The female birds from the Xorth-west Himalayas are very 

 much paler than those from Xepal, being more ashy olive above and 

 not so green ; the throat also is more ashy, and the remainder of the 

 underparts paler and all over yellow. 



Hah. Himalayas to the hills of Xorth-castcrn Bengal, and ex- 

 tending to the Karen hills in Bnrmah and Mooleyit in Tenasserim; 

 also occurring in the province of Fokien, in China. 



