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feathers, much broader on the latter ; forehead and sinciput golden 

 yellow ; lores, eyebrow, feathers round eye, sides of face, and ear- 

 coverts cobalt-blue ; fore part of cheeks golden yellow ; hinder 

 cheeks bluish green, with white centres to the feathers ; throat 

 light cobalt-blue, remainder of under surface of the body very pale 

 green, the fore neck and chest having the feathers edged with 

 emerald-green, producing a scaly appearance ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish isabelline washed with green ; quills below dusky, yellow 

 along the inner edges : " bill greenish horny, slightly dusky at base 

 of culmen, lower mandible paler ; tarsus and feet sickly green, the 

 tarsi in some bluish, soles yellow ; claws dusky ; iris light red or 

 ])ale brownish red, a pale outer circle often present " ( W. V. Legge). 

 Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0'85, wing 3-5, tail 2-25, 

 tarsus 0"9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3"55, tail 2*3, tarsus 0'95. 



Hah, Ceylon. 



4. Cyanops armillaris. 



Bucco armillaris, 2'em7)i. PL Col. iii. pi. 89. fig. I (1824) ; Cuv. 



Hegne Anim. p. 4o8 (1829) ; Uartl. Eev. Zool. 1842, p. 337. 

 Megalaima armillaris, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 429 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 143 (1850); Goffin, Mus. Pai/.^-Bas, Buccones, p. 22 (1863) ; 



Grai/, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 7 (1868) : id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 174, 



no. 8438 (1870); Vorderm. Ti/dschr. Nederl. /wd. xlv. p. 319 



(188o). 

 Megalasma armillaris, Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 61, pi. 28 (1871) ; 



Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, p. 142. 



Adult male. General colour above dark grass-green ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, externally like the back, the primaries yellowish along 

 the ends of their outer web ; tail-feathers green above, bluish 

 below ; centre of the crown and occiput cobalt^blue ; nape and hind 

 neck green, with a spot of golden yellow on each side of the latter ; 

 forehead and sinciput brilliant orange-yellow ; base of the forehead 

 and lores black ; eyebrow, feathers round eye, sides of face, ear- 

 corerts, cheeks, and under surface of body emerald-green ; across 



