348 Lord Waldeu on the late Colonel Tickell's 



miles, came fi-om. Fortunately, an examination of the figure 

 of the male, together with Colonel Tickell's later description, 

 leaves no doubt that the bird he had before him was the 

 Tenasserim and Tonghoo form of ^thopyga miles, recently 

 named by Mr. Hume (^' if really new") yEthopyga cava (Str. 

 F. ii. p. 473, note). Tt is the ^. miles (Hodgs.), apud 

 Walden (P. Z. S. 186G, p. 541), ex Moulmein and the Sahveen 

 river, obtained by Captain Beavan, and also the jE. miles, 

 apud Blyth (B. Burma, no. 491) . In ' The Ibis ' (1870, p. 32) 

 I drew attention to some of the characters which seemed to dis- 

 tinguish the Moulmein form of ^. miles ; but, rather than risk 

 adding a useless synonym, I refrained from naming it. Lately 

 Captain Shelley kindly informed me that he was of opinion that 

 my Burman example belonged to a species distinct from JE. 

 miles ; and a careful comparison I have since made convinces 

 me that Captain Shelley is justified in thinking that the Bur- 

 man form should be specifically separated. It is a species 

 intermediate between yfe\ miles and ^. eupogon, as will be 

 seen by the following key : — 



yE. miles. Cap, rectrices, and upper tail-coverts dark metallic green ; 

 violet moustachial stripe simple ; base of lower throat-feathers black. 



jE. cam. Cap and upper tail-coverts green ; rectrices dark steel-blue, 

 tinted with violet; base of lower throat-feathers white; violet mous- 

 tachial stripe simple. 



^. eupogon. Cap, upper tail-coverts, and rectrices metallic Anolet ; 

 base of lower throat-feathers white ; violet moustachial stripe internally 

 margined with black. 



N. seheria must still therefore be looked for in Borabhoom ; 

 but as Colonel Tickell identifies it with u^. miles, and as his 

 original description of the Borabhoom bird agrees to the 

 letter with jE. miles, I have little doubt that N. seheri<s = 

 JE. miles, in which case Colonel Tickell's title will have pre- 

 cedence. 



The remaining Himalayan species of jEthopygoi are all 

 beautifully figured. But Anthothreptus malaccensis, ^ ? , 

 " locality not known," is figured under the erroneous title of 

 iV. zeylonica, and A. flammaxillaris ^ , ex Rangoon, under 

 the incorrect name of N. jugularis. Nectarophila hasseltii, 



