1870.] INDIAN .VND AUSTExVLIAN REGIONS. 89 



puis un brun, et enfin iin jaune ; il y a deux taches de cette couleur au-dessous des epaules ; le 

 reste du dessous du corps, gris-olivatre ; le dessus du corps, vert-fonce avec des reflets bleus, 

 violets, etc., les pennes des ailes, Ics pennes et couvertures superieures de la queue, d'un brun 

 plus ou raoins fonce, avec un ceil verdatre." Were it not for the alleged Philippine origin, I 

 should not hesitate to refer C. inmgnia (Jard.) to C. maniUensis, Gm. 



33. Chalcostetha aspasia (Less.), Voy. Coq. Zoo1. i. p. G7C, no. 100, t. 30. f. 4, "Dorey " 

 (New Guinea), <s adult. (182G). 



Cinmjris sericeus. Less., Diet. Sc. Nat. 1. p. 21, "Dorey " (1827), ex Less. Voy. Coq. t. 30. 

 f. 3 {errorc). 



Hermotimia asjmsia (Less.), Eeichenb. Handb. p. 285, no. G61. 



Hah. Celebes, Amboyna, Banda Islands, New Guinea (S. Miiller) ; New Guinea, Waigiou, 

 Mysol, Aru (Wallace, j^VZc' Gray). 



Miiller mentions having obtained this species at Macassar {op. cit. Aves, p. 58). I do not 

 find it given from Celebes in any of Mr. AVallace's lists. It is therefore probable that Miiller did 

 not notice the characters discriminated by Mr, Wallace in the nearly allied species C.por- 

 phjrolcema. Again, by including Amboyna within its range, Miiller seems not to have recognized 

 the specific differences of C. aspasioides (G. E. Gray). Lesson, in his description of C. sericeus, Ibis, 1870, 

 quotes the number of the figure which represents A. zenohia. P' '^^' 



A young male from Mysol in my collection is not to be distinguished from the specimen, 

 described further on, of C. auriceps. But it has only put on two metallic shoulder-coverts, and 

 two of the neck-stripe plumes, and that on one side only. One of the dorsal feathers is tipped 

 with metallic green. On the habits of this species, consult Miiller {I. c). 



34. Chalcostetha aspasioides (G. E. Gray), P. Z. S. 1860, p. 349, "Amboyna." 

 A species doubtfully separable from C. aspasia. 



35. Chalcostetha POEPHTROLiEMA (Wallace), P. Z. S. 1865, p. 479, " Macassar." 

 The violet-purple throat at once distinguishes this species from C. aspasia. 



oG. Chalcostetha pkoserpina (Wallace), P. Z. S. 1SG3, p. 32, d $ , " Bouru." 

 A larger bird than C. aspasia, the middle and greater wing-coverts not metallic, but other- 

 wise exactly like it. A Bouru example marked a female, in my collection, presents no features 

 (its larger dimensions excepted) whereby it can be distinguished from the young male of 

 C. aspasia already noticed, beyond that the tail is dull brown, and not black, and wants all 

 traces of a silky or metallic gloss. This, as far as my investigations permit me to state an opinion, 

 is a characteristic of the female in some, if not in all, of the Eastern Sun-birds. 



37. Chalcostetha aupvICEPS (G. E. Gray), P. Z. S. 1860, p. 348, " Batchian, Teniate." 



Ilah. Sula Islands, Batchian, Gilolo (Wallace). 



This species is to be readily distinguished from the four last by the top of the head beino- 



