70 STtrBSIBJE. 



*'. Ad. sk. S.W. Formosa {JR. S.). Seelwlim Coll. 



r. Ad. sk. Tatow. Formosa, Nov. 1865 Seebohm Coll. 



V. JttT. sk. Apes Hill, Formosa, Not. Hume Coll. 



1S61 (S, SX 



r. Ad. sk. Hainan, Feb. ISGS (i?, &). Seebohm ColL 



w' m'. Ad. sk. Hainan,Maichl86S(^,&). Seebohm ColL 



o\ j/. Jut. sk. Cochin Cliiaa. M. E. Piexre [C.]. 



q. c' ad. sk. I/ower Pepi. Jan. 8, 1879. Gates ColL 



r'. Ad. sk. Singapore Island. Nov. 13, Hume Coll. 



18r9 ( IF. Dacitoii). 



2. Stamia violacea. 



Le Grand Tiaqart des PHlippiues, Hn'sf. Orn. iii. p. 44<3, pi. f?2. 



fiiT. 3 (1760) : Bmibmf. JY. £td. m, pL 185. fig. 2; Montb. .Hirf. 



AVrf. Oif. T. p. 230 (1778). 

 Motadlla violacea, Bt^d. Tabl Pf- Enl p. 11 (1783). 

 Pastor TOfieoIlis, Waffifr, ;%rf. -ir., Pastor, sp. 19 (1827); Gray, 



<?«j. ^. ii. p. 334 (1847). 

 LampTOtomis pTTrhogenTs, Teaun. & ScM. Faun, Jap., Arxs, p. 86 



^1850). 

 Lamprotamis pTrrhopogon, iid, i. e. pL 46 (1850). 

 Heteromispjnhogenys^i'/j. Comp. L p. 418 (1850, ex MUler, MS&) ; 



iStewt*. P. 2L & 18^. p. 302. 

 Heterotnis mficoDis, £p. Cktnsp. L p. 418 (1850). 

 Strania pyirliopogon, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1S60. p. 355. 

 Cdomis allnfrans, Bltflk (u^f SwMoe), P. Z. S. 1863, p. 302, note. 

 TtemennchnspTiThc^enys, Gmy, Sand-l. B. ii. p. 21, no. 6301 (1870). 

 TemennelHis raficollis, Gray, f~ c. p. 21, no. G302 (1870). 



P- - 



jRb, 1879, p. 134 ; BlakifL Amended List B. Japan, p. 14 (1884). 



Stnmia dominicaiia, Salmd. Uee. Born. p. 269 (1874); Vorderm. 

 2fdt, Tijd^lkr. NederL JW. xl\i. p. 235 (1887). 



Stmnia daniica {nee PalL), Sharpe, Ibis, 1S79, p. 2Q2. 



Stnniia Tiolaces, WW«feit, Trans. Z. & ix. p. 203 (1877) ; Bamsatf, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 162; Blasiug, in Madardsz, Zeitschr. 1886, p. 120. 



Adnlt male. General colonr above glossy ptaple, the Ecapnlars 

 like the back ; lower back: and romp mixed Trith creamy buff and a 

 few reddish feathels ; upper tail-coverts piirplish with creamy-bnff 

 edges ; le^er wing-coverts like the back ; median coverts white, 

 fonning a wing-band ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 

 covertis, and qniDs Uack, externally glossy steel-green, the primaries 

 and some of ttie secondaries edged with whitish : centre tail-feathers 

 glossv sted-greoi, the remainder Uack, green externally ; crown of 

 head ashy white, the occiput and nape marked with vinous ehest- 

 nnt ; lores and featheis round eye white ; ear-coverts and sides of 

 neck deep vinons ehestnnt; cheeks and throat white, the sides of 

 the latter vinons chcstnnt; fore neck, sid^ of body, and flanks 

 delicate slaty grey ; breast and abdomen white ; thighs grey, white 

 pceteriorly ; nnder tait-coverta pale tawny bnff ; under wing-coverts 

 and axiDaiies white, with a tinge of tawny buff; qnills below dusky. 



