20. TANVSIPTERA. 297 



b. Under surface of body cinnamon or ochreous 



butf; no white on inner web of lateral tail- 

 feathers ; a white dorsal patch. 

 c'. Head black like the mantle and scapulars . . nigriceps, p. 299. 

 d'. Head blue ; mantle black. 



n" . Head purplish blue ; wing-coverts ultra- 

 marine, below deep cinnamon aylvia, p. 300. 



b". Head light blue; wiug-covei'ts greenish 

 blue, below pale cinnamon ; the under 

 tail-coverts buff salvadoriana, p. 301. 



c. Under surface of body white ; a white dorsal 



patch. 

 e\ Upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers edged 

 with blue. 

 c". Upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 



broadly edged with blue doris, p. 301. 



d". Upper tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers 



very narrowly edged with blue emiliee, p. 302. 



/'. Upper tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers almost 



entirely white without a blue border .... sabrina, p. 303. 



d. Under surface of body white ; no white dorsal 



patch. 

 g'. Upper back and mantle uniform with 

 scapulars, and contrasting strongly with the 

 blue of the liead, which forms a cap. 

 e". Ear-coverts black. 



«'". Back black, washed with blue ; outer 



tail-feathers without any white /ii/drocharis, p. 304, 



b'". Back entirely black ; outer tail-feathers 



with the inner web white acis, p. 30o. 



/". Ear-coverts blue or purple like the hind 

 neck. 

 c'". Tail-feathers not spatulate at the ends, ellioti, p. 305. 

 d'". Tail-feathers with a distinct white 

 racket at the ends. 

 a*. Outer upper tail-coverts blue ; crown 

 of head ultramarine, with a broad 

 superciliary band of .silvery cobalt 



encircling the nape margaritce, p. 306. 



b*^. Outer upper tail-coverts black, or 

 bordered with blue ; cro^vii of head 

 uniform blue, the eyebrow not differ- 

 ing perceptibly from the crown in 



colour obiensis, p. 307. 



e''. Outer tail-coverts white or narrowly 



bordered with blue ; head practically 



imiform, the eyebrow and crown 



scarcely differing in tint. 



a'. Centre tail-feathers almost entirely 



blue. 



rt". Larger galatea, p. 307. 



b''. Smaller microrhynchu, p. 308. 



6'. Centre tail-feathers white, with 



the narrow extended portion blue. 



c". Head deep blue, as also the 



shoulder-patch ; outer taQ- 



feathers entirely white rosseliana, p. 309. 



