268 SYNOPSIS. 



Hob. Continental India, Col. Sykes. Goulparah, Lath. North- 

 ern India, Royle. Nipaul, Hodg. 



N. LATHAMI, Jardine, 1842. 



N. Lathami, Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. xxxvi. p. 233, 1842. 



Above, forehead to the line of the eyes, steel-blue ; back 

 and sides of the neck, cheeks, back, and less, w.-covers, brown- 

 ish red ; lower back and rump dark gamboge-yellow, protected 

 on the sides by lengthened plumes of oil-green ; up. t.-co- 

 vers steel-blue ; tail black, feathers edged with steel-blue, gra- 

 duated ; w. umber-brown, edges of the feathers paler. Below, 

 chin, fore part of the neck, and breast, scarlet-red ; maxillary 

 stripes reach to the sides of the neck ; narrow feathers of two 

 colours, black and violet, forming a line of each, the black inte- 

 rior ; belly, vent, and und. t.-covers, dull greyish oil-green ; bill, 

 tarsi, and feet, umber-brown, mandible slightly paler. Length, 

 4 in. 2-1 Oths; of bill to forehead, 5^-1 Oths; of w. to long, 

 quill, 2 in. 



Hob. Continental India. Note. Differs from N. Goalpari- 

 crisis in the general tint of colouring, blue front and up. t.-co- 

 vers ; t. regularly graduating? 



N. EXIMIA, Horsfield, 18. 



N. eximia, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 181. 

 Souimanga de Kukl, N. KMii, Temm. PI. CoL 376, 

 figs. 1, 2. 



(J Above, coronal patch extending to the occiput, olive with 

 metallic lustre ; back and sides of the neck, back, and w.-covers, 

 yellowish oil-green ; rump pale gamboge -yellow ; w. and t. pale 

 umber-brown, latter graduated. Below. Throat, fore part of the 

 neck, and up. breast, brownsih carmine, divided in the centre 

 by an angular stripe of violet ; belly dark umber-brown, shading 

 to greenish white on the vent and und. t.-covers ; axillary tufts 

 very ample, white. Length, 5 in. ; of bill to forehead, 8-1 Oths ; 

 of w. to long, quill, 2 in. 2-1 Oths. 

 Hab. Java, Horsf., Temm. 



Ni NIPALENSIS, Hodgson, 18 . 



Cinnyris Nipalensis, Hodg. Spec, in Coll. of Zool. Soc. 



