1870.] INDIAN AND AIJSTEALIAN EEGIONS 81 



from jE. miJrs or from ^. vigorsi. It must be rare in tliat part of India ; for Captain Beavan 

 failed to obtain or even see it. 



15. J]]tiiopyga temmixcki (S. Miiller), Verb. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. I3ez. Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 173, note, 6, "Sumatra" [1843]; op. cit. Zool. Aves, p. 56, t. 8. f. 2 [1846]. 



Hob. In the dense forest on the mountains of Singalang, and in those of the eastern 

 mountain ranges of Sumatra (Miiller). 



To be distinguished from all other kinds by the metallic violet circlet on the head, shaped 

 somewhat like a horse-shoe. A lovely species. 



16. ^THOPTGA SIPARAJA (Raffles), Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 299, d adult., "Sumatra" (1822), 

 descr. orig. 



M'ctannia mystacalis, Temm., PI. Col. livr. xxi. t. 126. f. 3, d adult., " Java" (Aug. 2, ibis, 1S70, 

 1823); S. Miiller & Schl., Verb. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool. Aves, p. 55 t. 9. f. 1, ?, p'^^- 

 nest and egg. 



% Nectariiiia lathami, Jard., op. cit. pp. 233, 268, 6 adult., "India" (1842). 



% yEthopy(ja eupogon, Cab., Mus. Hein. i. p. 103, note, "Malacca, Borneo" (1850-51). 



Hab. Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Miiller) ; Pinang (Moore) ; Banjermassing (Sclater). 



The specific title given by Sir S. Raffles is the name, according to him, by which this species is 

 known to the Malays ; it means " King-Sucker " {conf. Miiller, I. c. in note). No mention is made 

 by either Sir Stamford or Temminck of its possessing a yellow lower-back, nor is this feature 

 indicated in Temminck's plate ; yet two Javan examples I have examined have the uropygium 

 yellow as in the rest of the genus. Whether identically the same species inhabits all the localities 

 above cited has yet to be shown. Banjermassing individuals are said to be doubtfully distinct 

 (Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 220). Dr. Cabanis unites Bornean and Malaccan examples under the 

 title quoted, and separates them from Sumatran individuals of yE. sipjaraja. Banjermassino- 

 specimens which I have compared with Javan do not exhibit the differences on which Dr. Cabanis 

 {I. c.) relies : — " nicht nur die Mitte der Stirn und des Scheitels, sondern die ganze Stirn und 

 dariiber hinaus violett blau glanzend." The types may have come from some other part of Borneo. 

 Malaccan examples I have not seen. Dr. Salvadori (Ibis, 1865, p. 549) states that both 

 jE. siparaja and JE. eupogon want the yellow rump, but does not state his authority. 



17. iETiioPYGA CHALC0P0G0I7, Reich., Handb. Spec. Orn. part xi. p. 303, no. 708, t. 586. 

 f. 3982-83, "Borneo" (Nov. 1, 1853). 



Said, by its describer, to be closely allied to jE. goalpariensis, i. e. JE. miles. " The cap 

 metallic green, but restricted to the fore part of the head. Upper tail-coverts and moustache 

 glistening steel-blue. Middle tail-feathers edged with blue." The part of Borneo whence it 

 came is not mentioned*. 



* Collected by V, Kessell at Banjermassing. — Tweeddale. 



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