12, CnOTORHEA. 57 



Me^alffima javensis, Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 43, pi. 20 (1871-) • 



Ms{m^"\W^''''- ^"^'''^' ^'"^' ^^^'- P- ^° ^^^®^^' Nicholson, 



Adult male. Grass-green, a few feathers with a bluish shade- 

 wing-coverts blue like the back; quills blackish, externally like the 

 back, the primaries yellowish towards the ends of the outer webs • 

 tail green above, bluish beneath; crown of the head pale golden 

 yellow ; hind neck and sides of the neck dark green, also washed 

 witJi golden yellow ; lores with a scarlet spot, surmounted by a line 

 ot black estniding above the eye and widening above the ear- 

 coyerts, the adjacent sides of the hinder crown and nape glossed 

 with bright vcrditcr-grocn ; feathers below the eye black, extending 

 downwards ma black band across the middle of the cheeks, the 

 lore part ot which is marked with a spot of bright yellow; hinder 

 cheeks and ear-coverts emerald-green, glossed with golden yellow 

 throat deep crimson, the lower throat with a black spot; remainder 

 ot under surface of body light emerald-green, with a spot of scarlet 

 on each side of tlie fore neck ; under wing-coverts yellowish isabel- 

 line ; quills light brown below, yellow along the inner web : " bill 

 black; feet yellowish ; iris dark vandyke-brown " {Vorderman). 

 Total length lO-!> inches, culmen 1 -oS, wing 4-35, tail 2-6, tarsus M 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the colours a trifle 

 2-6 tamt M °^^ ^^ ''''^'''' '''^"''" ^'^' ""^"^ 4-65, tail 



Hab. Java. 



f ^^- ^*- J-'i^'a. Purchased 



6,c.^Ad.;dImm. Jf^va (Iforsfeld). India Museum. (Types 



^ Arl q1- t °* ^^^ species.) 



fAat' t'"'''-.,, . Tvveeddale Coll. 



i' A A Q.H.I- i^''^0^^'''-^»!/^-)- «aIviu-Godman Coll. 



/' J' .^1 .1 ^- T^''^V Wallace Coll. 



I. d ad. sk. L. Java (A. R. Wallate). Gould Coll. 



3. Chotorhea chrysopogon. 



Jiucco chrysopogon, Tcmm. Fl. Col. iii. 1824, p. 285; Giv Mbane 

 Amm. 1. 1829, p. 458, note. ^ ' ^^ 



V' .; " ; . i. '•■^" ' ^'"V'-^i^t '-(ipit. lint. Alus.lSm 

 Ciumatra, I on. 1888, p. 3o. 



Chotorhea chrysopogon, Bp. Consp. Vobwr. Zygod. 1854, d lo. 

 Horsf.^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 1856, p. 640; Salvad 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genor. xiv. 1879, p 179 '=aivaa. 



Megahema chiysopogon, Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 206 ; Marshall, Momar 



F& \f ^^'?.^"^^ W^^^""^^- ^*-- 1«77, p. 229 ; Bume, ir] 

 .!f'7 P- ^^-'J^elham, Bis, 1881, p. 389; Nicholson, Ibis, i88-' 



