SYNOPSIS. 269 



(J Above, head, cheeks, and nape steel-blue ; up. part of the 

 back with a broad crescented band of deep reddish chestnut, 

 extending to the breast and pointing upwards on the sides of 

 the neck ; lower back, less, w.-covers, scapulars, edges of the 

 quills, and secondaries, clear oil-green ; rump gamboge yellow ; 

 tip. t.-covers steel-blue ; w. blackish-brown ; t. graduated, fea- 

 thers rather accumulated at the tips, black the two outer 

 pairs tipped with grey, the outer feathers greenish steel-blue, 

 black at the base and tips. Below, gamboge-yellow, centre of 

 the breast and belly reddish orange, throat steel-blue, inside 

 of the w. pale yellowish white ; bill, tarsi, and feet, blackish- 

 brown. Length, 5J. in.; of bill to forehead, 7-10tbs; of w. 

 to long quill, 2 in. 

 Hob. Nipaul, Hodg. 



N. GOULDS, Vigors, 1831. * 



Cinnyris gouldice, Vig. Proc. Zool. Soc. part i. 1830 and 

 1831, p. 44 ; Gould. Cent, of Birds from Himalaya 

 Mount, pi. Ivi. 



Above, crown extending to the occiput in a point, auri- 

 culars, spot at insertion of w., up. t.-covers, metallic blue 

 with purple reflections ; back and sides of the neck, back, chest- 

 nut red with a mixture of carmine ; rump gamboge-yellow < 

 w. umber brown ; t. black, centre feathers elongated, broadly 

 edged with steel-blue. Below, gamboge-yellow sparingly 

 dashed with red; throat steel-blue with purple reflections; 

 bill, tarsi, and feet, umber-brown. Length (equaling N. goalr 

 pariensis). 



Hob. Alpine India. Himalaya, Gould. 



N. HODGSONI, Jardine, 1842. 



5 Above, crown, nape, up. t.-covers, very deep blue ; sides 

 of the neck, up. back, and scapulars, dark reddish chestnut- 

 (nearly blood-red) ; lower back black ; neck pale yellow ; w 

 brownish black; t. black, centre feathers much lengthened 



* February. 



