MEGALiEMA. ^^ 



Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 73 ; Brooks S F.n\,y. 232 ; iZ-^«,^e Co^. 

 no 191 • id S F. xi, p. 66 ; Scully, S. F. viu, p. 250 ; C. H. I. 

 M^^lll^, 1884; p' 410; Oates^n Ru.n.s iV,j;^^nd ed u, 

 p. 318; hhelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 53; Sharpe, larl. Miss., Aves, 

 p. 108. 

 Traiho, H. Chamba; Miotdi, at Mussooree; Nyalml, Neoul, Nepalese ; 

 Kun-nyony, Lepcha. 



Y\a. 24.— Hccad of M. marshaUormn. 



Caloration Feathers of head and neck all round black with deep 

 vioMHue ed^^es back and scapulars brownish olive, the upper 

 back S nafrow pale green Iv greenish-yellow longitudinal 

 streaks lower back; rump, and upper tail-coverts grass-green 

 ^brighter green edges/tail green f^^^^^^^^^^^^^:^, 



1^ v.i,ia l-iplnvv secondary-coverts like back pinnaiy-covexts. 

 £ p^aries nen "e base fringed with blue, outer webs of 

 seconEes green, tertiaries bluer with the tips olive-brown, 

 rlaiX of%uills blackish brown, inner webs with yellowish- 

 wMte mar.°ns%nd outer webs of primaries with a pale linear 



Si^n. Th.oughou?the Htoakya. as far .-est as Murree 

 between about 3000 and 8000 feet elevation, also south of the 



