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Adult male. General colour above light tawny brown, the inner 

 secondaries like the back, but with dusky greenish inner webs ; head 

 greenish blue, a little brighter over the eye, the base of forehead and 

 fore part of eyebrow whitish ; lores black ; fore part of cheeks and 

 chin white ; sides of face, cheeks, and under surface of body light 

 greenish blue, becoming paler on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 breast and fore neck with mesial streaks of brighter greenish blue ; 

 upper wing-coverts greenish blue, except a band of smuU coverts 

 along the carpal bend of the wing, which is purplish blue ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts greenish blue, the former externally 

 dark green, black at the end shaded with blue ; quills black, 

 with a greenish-blue base to the outer web, this light basal 

 patch having a purplish-blue shade where it adjoins the black, the 

 primaries externally greenish blue, the secondaries purplish on the 

 outer web ; lower back and rump purplish blue ; upper tail-coverts 

 bluish green, mesially shaded with j)urple ; centre tail-feathers dull 

 oily green, the rest greenish blue for two thirds of their outer web, 

 black on their inner one, the terminal part light greenish blue with 

 a black shaft, this light portion increasing towards the outermost 

 feather, which is the only one which has a black tip : " bill blackish 

 horn-colour ; feet dark yellow ; iris dark brown " (J. A. Naumann). 

 Total length 12 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 7"5, tail 4'8, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 12 

 inches, culmen ] "35, wing 7'4, tail 4'8, tarsus O.O. 



Young. Much duller and browner than the adults, the head and neck 

 dull oily green, as also the sides of the face ; the blue on the wing- 

 coverts much less intense, with the greenish-blue colour overshaded 

 with brown ; chin ashy white, the lower throat streaked with green- 

 ish white ; fore neck and breast light brown, streaked with paler 

 shaft-lines ; rest of under surface light greenish blue like the adults 

 but paler ; the bluish-green colour on the tail much more dingy than 

 the adults and having no black at the end of the outer tail-feather. 



Hah. Europe generallj-, extending to Central Asia, becoming rarer 

 in the North, wintering in Africa ; breeding also in Cashmere, and 

 wintering in the extreme north-west of India. 



F. Bond. Esq. [P.]. 

 Mr. W. Meves[C.]. 

 Lord Liltbrd [P.]. 

 Consul Merlin [P.]. 

 Dr. E. B. Sharpe 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Lord Liltbrd [P.]. 

 Shelley CoJl. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 India Museum. 







