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Adult male. Forehead, face, and throat yellowish green, becoming 

 greener on the fore neck and crown, and passing thence into 

 delicate grey-blue on the hind neck and upper part of inter- 

 scapular region ; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and tertials brownish 

 green, passing into greenish brown on the upper tail-coverts ; quills 

 ashy black, the greater coverts and lowermost tertials with prim- 

 rose-yellow margins ; primaries and secondaries with narrow 

 yellowish-white margins ; tail bluish ashy, with a median dark 

 band and the terminal band lighter than the base, and showing 

 whitish beneath ; a narrow lilac band across the upper part of chest, 

 succeeded by a broader band of orange-sienna ; breast yellowish 

 green, passing into yellow on the abdomen, and into bluish cine- 

 reous on the flanks ; centres of tibial plumes ashy green, and the 

 margins yellowish ; under tail-coverts cinnamon, the basal feathers 

 with white outer edges ; under wing-coverts concolorous with the 

 flanks : " legs and feet carnation pink ; bill pale greenish, or bluish 

 white ; irides with an inner ring of bright blue, and an outer ring 

 of buffy pink" (Davison). Total length 11-12-12-12 inches, wing 

 6-42-6-75, tail 3-75-4-5, bill 0-55, tarsus 0-85-1. 



Female. Has the blue of the hind neck of less extent, but darker 

 than the male ; the upper surface is more overcast with brownish ; 

 the chest wants the lilac and orange bands : under tail-coverts 

 whitish, the inner webs mostly cinnamon, and the bases of the 

 feathers dappled with ashy. 



Young. Similar to the female : " outer circle of the iris reddish 

 yellow" (Legcje). 



Specimens from Ceylon are smaller: "length 10-3-10-6, wing 

 5-5-5-8, tail 3-6-3-8 " (Legg* >. 



Hob. Sub-Himalayan region, Eastern Central Provinces of India 

 and Burmese countries, as far east as Cochinchina and Hainan. 

 and also the Malay Peninsula, with the island of Salanga, and 

 Ceylon. 



a, b. c? ad. sk. Ceylon, March (S. Chapman). TVeeddale Cob'. 



c-f. ($ ad. sk. Ceylon (Nevill). Tweeddale Coll. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Cevlon (Messrs. Hart Bros.). Hume Coll. 



'h. Ad. st. Madras. Rev. H. H. Baber 



[P.]. 



h «• c? 2 ad. sk. Madras. Dr. T. C. Jerdon 



[P.]. (Types of 

 species.) 



I, »>. n. 3 2 a d. Maunbhoom, Jan., March, Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 

 sk. (S. C. Beavan). 



o. 2 ad- sk. Nepal (Hodgsoii). India Museum [P.]. 



p. j ad. sk. Bhotan Doars, April (L. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli). 



q, r. J ad. sk. Tipperah, March, April. Hume Coll. 



s, t. $ ad. sk. Dacca. Hume Coll. 



u, v. 3 ad. sk. Suddya, April (J. Cocklmrri). Hume Coll. 



io,x,y. <5 ad.sk. Dibrughur, April, May (J. R. Hume Coll. 

 Cripps). 



