90 MEK0P1DJ5. 



I' . Ad. sk. retcliapiiiT, Siam, Aup:- M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



m". d ad. sk. Pahpoon, Jan. ( If. Ihirison). Hume Coll. 



«". (^ ad. sk. Khayin, March ( IF. Uavinon). Hume Coll. 



o". J ad. sk. Toung'slia Gjne River, March Hume Coll. 



( W. Davison), 



p". (S ad.sk. Kaiiee, Houngthraw R. {W. Hume Coll. 



Dai<i,son). 



q". (f ad. sk. Thoungyeen River, Sept. (C. Hume Coll. 



T. Biiu/ham). 



r". 2 ad. sk. Kaukaryit, March. Major Bingham [P.]. 



s", t". $ ad. sk. Thatone, Feb. ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



w", v". (S ad. ; Amherst, Dec. ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



w". $ ad. sk. 



.r". 2ad.sk. AttaranR.,Dec. (Tf^. 7)ffi7sow). Hume Coll. 



y". (5 ad. sk. Moulmein, Oct. (-R. C JJeauaw). TweedJale Coll. 



z". Ad. sk. Cambodia. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



2. Nyctiornis amicta. 



Merops amictus, Temm. PI. dd. iv. pi. 310 (1824) ; Schl. Mus. 



Pays-lias, Merops, p. 13 (1863). 

 Nyctiornis amicta, Swains. Zool. Illustr. 2nd ser. ii., text to pi. 56 



(1831) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 87 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. 



p. 73 (1848) ; Bp. Co7isp. i. p. 164 (1850) ; Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 38 



(1850); Reichenb. Jfandb., Merop. -p. 80, Taf. 453. figs. 3260-61 



(1852) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 264 ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. I. Co. I. p. 383 (1854) ; Bp. Consp. Valuer. Anis. p. 8 



(1854) ; Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Jlein. Th. ii. p. 133 (1860) ; Jeid. B. 



India, i. p. 212 (1862) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 214 ; Blyth, Ibis, 



18G6, p. 345 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 98, no. 1194 (1869) ; Salvad. 



Ucc. Born. p. 91 (1874) ; Blyfh ^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 73 (1875); 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 6 ; Tweedd. t. c. p. 298 ; Hume ^ Davis. Str. 



F. vi. pp. 69, 498 (1878) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 248 ; Hume, Str. 



F. viii. pp. 48, 85 (1879) ; Bingham, t. c. p. 193 ; id. Str. F. ix. 



p. 153 (1880) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 378; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, 



p. 793 ; Nichols. Ibis, 1882, p. 56, 1883, p. 87 ; Gates, Handb. B. 



Br. Burm. ii. p. 64 (1883) ; Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 3, pis. 1, 



2 (1884) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 407 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, 



p. 442 ; Vorde7-7n. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xlvi. p. 227 (1887) ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, pp. 18, 483. 

 Nyctinomus amictus. Swains. Zool. Illustr. 2nd ser. pi. 56. 

 Alcemerops amictus, Hartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 15 (1844) ; Blyth, 



Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 52 (1849). 

 Nyctiornis malaccensis, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 133 



(1860); Gray, Hand-l. B.\. p. 98, no. 1195(1869); Hume, Str. 



F. ii. p. 469 (1874). 



Adult male. General colour above and below grass- green ; fore- 

 head and vertex lilac, extending to the centre of the crown ; lores, 

 fore part of cheeks, throat, and centre of fore neck scarlet- 

 vermilion ; at the base of the forehead, on the fore part of the 

 cheeks, and again on the chin is a small spot of verditer-blue, and 

 the scarlet of the cheeks is tinged with lilac posteriorly; the 

 hinder cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck grass-green like the 

 back ; the feathers of the throat long and pointed, those of the fore 

 neck centred with dark green ; the abdomen paler than the rest of 



