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edged broadly with blue at the centre. Below, chin, fore part 

 of the neck, and breast, deep black ; maxillary stripes long, 

 deep blue ; vent and und. t.-covers greenish grey ; flanks and 

 under surface of the w. yellowish white ; bill brownish black : 

 tajsi and feet umber-brown. Length, 5| in. ; of bill to fore- 

 head, 7-10ths; of w. to long quill, 2-10ths; centre t. feathers 

 exceed true tail 1 in. 2-10ths. 



If ah. Nipaul, Hodg. Note. Our specimen rather mutilated ; 

 descript. will require revision with a perfect skin. 



N. PHJENICURA, Jardine, 1842. 



, Col. Zool. Soc. No. 1690 (not named). 



(J, Above, crown steel-blue ; back and sides of the neck, back, 

 up. t.-covers, two long t. feathers, and the outer webs of the 

 others, bright orange scarlet-red ; rump dull gamboge yellow ; 

 scapulars, less, w.-covers, and edges of the quill and secondaries, 

 oil-green; wings umber-brown ; tail, inner webs of the feathers, 

 except the centre pair, umber-brown, tips paler, seen from be- 

 neath, reddish grey. Below, chin and centre of the throat and 

 neck, deep velvet black, bordered by maxillary stripe of deep 

 steel-blue ; breast and upper belly orange-yellow ; lower belly, 

 vent, and und. t.-covers, dull gamboge-yellow ; bill blackish- 

 brown ; tarsi and [feet umber-brown. Length, exclusive of 

 out. t.-feathers, 5 in. ; of wing to long quill, 2 in. 2-10ths. 



9 Above, yellowish oil-green ; wings umber-brown ; rump 

 dull gamboge-yellow ; up. t.-covers, centre feathers, and out. 

 webs of others, orange scarlet-red ; throat, fore part of the neck 

 and breast, pale oil-green ; belly, vent, and und. t. covers, dull 

 gamboge-yellow, darkest in the centre of the former ; bill, tarsi, 

 and feet, brownish-black. Length, 7 in. ; long feathers exceed 

 the others by li in. 



Hab. Silhet, Sir F. Egerton, Bart. Nipaul, Hodg. Note. 

 The last bird, described as 9* was sent to Zool. Soc. by Mr. 

 Hodgson, and is probably a young . It is probable these two 

 last species have been previously named by Mr. Hodgson. 



