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smaller. The 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 vE. 

 miles cannot be defined with accuracy until the exact limits of /E. 

 vi(/o?'si are ascertained, the specific value oiy^.seheria determined, 

 and the variation that .yE. miles itself undergoes in the widely- 

 separated localities it is said to inhabit have been investigated. 



14. JEthopygavigorsi, (Sykes), P.Z.S. 1832,p. 98,no. 134, 

 c? adult., " Dukhun ; " Gould, Bn-ds of Asia, pi. 26. 



Cinnyris conculor, Sykes, /. c. no. 137, 5 . 



? Nectarinia seherice, Tickell, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. ii. p. 577, 

 c? adult., "Seheria'' (1833), descr. orig. 



Hab. 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 Mahableshwur Hills. It is a most rare bird in 

 collections, to be distinguished {fide Moore, op. 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 striae which intersect the scarlet of the breast ; " but 

 whether 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. seherits represents a 

 s])ecies distinct from yE. miles or from ^. vigorsi. It must be 

 rare in that part of India; for Captain Beavan failed to ob- 

 tain or even see it. 



15. jEthopyga temmincki, (S. Miiller), Verb. Nat. Gesch. 

 Ned. Overz. Bez. Land en Volkenk. p. 173, note, S , " Sumatra" 

 [1843] ; op. cit. Zool. Aves, p. 56, t. 8. f. 2 [1846]. 



Hab. In the dense forests on the mountains of Singalaug, 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. iExHOPYGA siPARAJA, (Raffles), Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 299, 

 S adult., "Sumatra" (1822), descr. orig. 



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