100 



Adult male. General colour above greenish black ; hind neck and 

 upper mantle purple ; crown of head steel-green with a slight pur- 

 plish gloss, the crown purple along the centre ; lesser wing-coverts 

 green ; remainder of coverts, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts 

 black, the median coverts edged with glossy green, the secondaries 

 washed with purple or green under certain lights ; a white patch 

 on tlio primaries, the white found only on both webs of the second 

 third, fourtli, fifth, and sixtli long primaries, on the inner web only 

 of tlic first, and on the outer web only of the seventh ; tail black, 

 washed with glossy green ; sides of face glossy steel-green, purplisli 

 on the auricular region ; throat and fore neck steel-green, with an 

 oiU'-greon shade on the latter and on the chest, which gradually 

 becomes purple ; rest of the under surface of body glossy green, the 

 feathers being black, edged with green, as also the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries : " bill orange-yellow ; legs and feet citron- 

 yellow ; lappets and cheek-spot rich yellow, the latter tinged with 

 blue at tlie upper edge ; iris brown, the outer edge white, darkly 

 mottled " ( W. V. Legge). Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-05, 

 Aving 5-6, tail 2-65, tarsus 1-15. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 9-3 inches, 

 culmeu 1-1, wing o-5, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-3. 



Head of Mainatus religiosus from aboTe, to show form of lappets. 



Lappets two on the nape, running up on each side of the latter 

 and continued on the sides of the head to the hinder part of the 

 eye ; below the eye a nearly square bare patch reaching to the 

 cheeks. 



Young. Yery similar to the adults, but rather more dingily 

 coloured, with greyish fringes to the feathers of the abdomen ; no 

 posterior lappets on the nape : " lappets dull yellow " ( IF. V. Legge). 



The white patch on the primaries is rather variable, the majoritj' 

 of specimens being marked on both webs with white up to the 

 sixth long quill, and the seventh having a small white spot on the 

 outer web. In some, however (principally from Malabar), the 

 seventh has also white on both webs, and the eighth has an external 

 mark of white. 



Hah. Ceylon and Southern India. 



5 ad. sk. 



Ragam Corale, Ceylon, Dec. 3- 

 1878 {Hart). 



Hume Coll. 



