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quills blackish, externally blue, the secondaries greener externally, 

 the innermost bright bluish green, with a broad ending of orange- 

 brown ; tail-feathers green above, bluish below ; crown of head deep 

 blue, with a faintly-indicated shaft-stripe of lighter blue, more 

 distinct on the nape ; bind neck sulphur-yellow, streaked with paler 

 yellow on the centre ; lores, sides ot the face, and ear-coverts black, 

 washed with deep blue ; cheeks and throat deep blue, the lower 

 throat dark brown ; sides of neck like the back ; fore neck dark 

 brown washed with greenish blue ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 Prussian blue, the latter streaked with yellow ; sides of the body 

 and flanks streaked, the sides of the breast orange-brown with 

 yellow edges to the feathers ; the flanks green with greenish-yellow 

 edges ; thighs dusky brown, washed with yellow ; uuder tail-coverts 

 scarlet ; under wing-coverts pale yellowish ; edges of wing green ; 

 quills below dusky, pale yellow along the inner edge : " bill pale 

 yellow, bluer at the tip of the upper mandible; legs and feet 

 greenish grey " (A. 0. Hume, MSS.) : •' biU horny greenish towards 

 the tip ; culmen from nares bluish black, darkest towards the tip ; 

 feet dingy horn-green ; claws black ; iris dark brown " {J. ScuUi/). 



Youiuj. Similar to the adult, but with the colours everywhere 

 more dingy, with only a few yellowish streaks on the hinder neck ; 

 the head and throat blackish washed with blue, with a few streaks 

 of bright cobalt on the sides of the lower throat. 



Specimens from the Xorth-wcstern Himalayas are paler in colour 

 than those from Sikhim and the Eastern Himalayas, and the Manipur 

 birds show a slight afiinity to M. virenn in their dark colouring and 

 smaller amount of sulphur-yellow on the hind neck : the Manipur 

 specimens, however, have the deep blue head of the Himalayan bird, 

 and although the yellow streaks on the hind neck are somewhat 

 tinged with green, there are many Himalayan specimens which 

 exhibit this peculiarity. 



Hah. Himalayas from Cashmere to Manipur. 



