80 ON THE SUX-BIEDS OF THE [1870, 



1S25 ; S. Miiller & Schl., Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool. Avcs, p. 60, t. 8. f. 5, 2 

 [184G]. 



Hab. Timor, Poeloe Samauw (Miiller) ; Timor, Flores (Wallace). 



Miiller (/. c.) has shown that Teraminck was in error when he stated that his type specimens 

 came from Amboyna. This species is a somewhat isolated form. The metallic part of its 

 plumage is green, as in If. osea, and the flame-colour of the axillaries is diffused over the entire 

 under surface. 



1.3. ^THOPYGA MILES (Hodgs.), Ind. Rev. ii. p. 273, descr. orig., <S , 2 , et juv., "Nipaul" 

 (1837). 



CerfJua goalpariensis, Royle, 111. Him. Bot. ii. t. 7. f 1, 6 adult, " Deyra Doon " (1839). 



Cinnyris labecula, McClell., P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167, 6 adult., " Assam," descr. orig. 



Nectarinia goalparienis, Boyle, Jard., Nat. Lib. xxxvi. pp. 230, 267, t. 27, d adult., " Nipaul ;" 

 Blyth, partim, Cat. Mus. Calc. no. 1351. 



Goulpourah Creeper, Lath., Gen. Hist. iv. p. 221, t. 74, " Goulpourah," 6 adult. 



McClelland's title is here added as a synonym on the authority both of Blyth {I. c.) and of 

 Moore (Cat. E. 1. Mus. ii. p. 732) ; yet no mention is made in McClelland's diagnosis of the 

 yellow rump. Moulmein and Tippera examples in my collection are smaller than those from 

 the Deyra-Doou and from Nipaul. From Tip^iera, wing 2-12, tail 272, bill •57; from the 

 Deyra-Doon. wing 218, tail 318, bill '6. The Moulmein specimen is still smaller. The 

 Ibis, 1S70, middle pair of rectrices are steel-blue, not steel-green. The lower back of a much 

 ^' ' deeper yellow. In both, the metallic cap is confined to the crown, and does not descend 

 the nape as in the Deyra-Doon bird. The geographical range of ^E. miles cannot be defined 

 with accuracy until the exact limits of yE. vigorsi are ascertained, the specific value of ^. 

 seheriee determined, and the variation that yE. miles itself undergoes in the widely-separated 

 localities it is said to inhabit have been investigated. 



14. iExnoPTGA viGOESi (Sykes), P.Z.S. 1832, p. 98, no. 134, d adult., "Dukhun;" Gould, 

 Birds of Asia, pi. 26. 



Cinnyris concolor, Sykes, /. c. no 137, 9 . 



■? Ferffirinia seherice, Tickell, Jouni. Asiat. Soc. Beng. ii. p. 577, d adult., " Seheria " (1833), 

 descr. orig. 



JIab. Inhabits only the lofty trees of the dense woods of the Ghauts (Sykes) ; Bustar country 

 (Jerdon). 



Dr. Jerdon suggests that the Ghauts referred to by Colonel Sykes are the Mahabaleshwur Hills. 

 It is a most rare bird in collections, to be distinguished (Ji'lc Moore, ojh cit. ) from the last " by 

 the small crescent of brilliant metallic blue on the ear-coverts." Mr. Moore states as a differential 

 character " the light yellow stria> which intersect the scarlet of tl^c breast ;" but wliether they be 

 found in fully adult birds is an open question. Until examples from Borabhoom and its vicinity 

 are examined, it cannot be decided whether the type of N. seherice represents a species distinct 



