38 coK.vciiDj;. 



'/'• 2 ad. slf- Menado (Duivcnbode). Tweeddale Coll. 



h'. $ ad. sk. Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



i', k'. Ad. ; /'. Sula Islands. Wallace Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



ni, n'. S ad. sk. Lombock. Wallace Coll. 



o',p'. $ ad. E. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



q'. Ad. sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



/.' Skeleton. Piu-chased. 



»'. Skeleton. Eyton Coll. 



Intermediate specimens between Eurystomus orieutalis and 

 E. australis. 



a. Ad. sk. Negrros, Pbilippines. Guruey Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. Ayak, Mindanao, Dec. 8. E. L. Moseley, Esq. 



[C.]. 



6. Eurystomus calonyx, (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Eurystomus calonyx, Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 

 pis. 10^11 (no. 247) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844, nomen 

 nudum) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 551 ; Sfi/an, Ibis, 1891, p. .317. 



Eurystomus orientalis (nee L.), Hodgs. Icon. pis. 10, 11 (no. 248) ; id. 

 in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844] ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal 

 pres. Hod(/s. p. 5.5 (184(5) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1848) ; 

 Blyth, Celt. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 51 (1849) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 48, 

 1861, p. 31 ; Badde, Reis. Sibir. p. 114, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1861) ; Jerd. 

 B. Ind. i. p. 219 (1862) ; Stcinh. Ibis, 1866, p. 129 ; Btdger, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 155 ; S^cinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 347 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 3 ; 

 Pet. Ibis, 187.3, p. 108 ; Hu7ne, Nests ^- Egr/s hid. B. p. 105 (1873) ; 

 Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 135 (1876) ; Dybowski, J. f. O. 

 1876, p. 192; David i,- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 72 (1877); Hmne, 

 Str. F. viii. p. 49 (1879) ; Blakist. Amend. List B. Japan, p. 24 

 (1884) ; Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 229 ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests ^- Eggs, 

 iii. p. 67 (1890, pt.). 



Adult (type of speci«s). Similar to E. orientalis, but having the 

 black terminal part of the tail overshaded with purplish blue, and 

 the outer black secondaries also externally washed with purplish 

 blue : " bill and feet coral-red; iris red" {H. E. M. James). Total 

 length 11 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 7'4, tail 3-9, tarsus 0'75. 



Younff. Duller than the adults, and ha^■ing only a greenish shade 

 on the throat instead of purplish blue. 



Bab. Amoor-Land, Manchuria, and Northern China in summer, 

 apparently wintering in Tenasserim and the Malayan Peninsula and 

 Borneo. Throughout the Himalayas from Kumauu to Assam. 



ft.cJad.sk. ChangpeiShanMts.,Manchuria, II. E. M. James, Esq. 



July. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. N. China. W.Fortune,Esq.[C.]. 



c. Juv. sk. Amoy, May [P. Sicinhoe). Seebohm Coll. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Kumaim. Hume Coll. 



(', /, g. Ad. et Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



juv.sk. (Type of species.) 



h. Ad. sk. Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). India Must urn. 



i,k. Ad.; /,//(. Native Sikbini, Juuc, July Hume Coll, 



Juv. sk, (L. 3Ia)idetli). 



