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The female has the under and upper parts dull olive \vith a strong greyish 

 tinge ; wings and tail brown, the latter with very small light tips to the under 

 web of the outer pairs of feathers. 



Length. ^ inches; wing 2-13 $ , 2-5 to 2-6 $ ; tail 2 15 to 3 ; tarsus 

 O'6i ; culmen o'8. 



Hub. The Deccan and Southern India (Madras). Colonel Sykes (accord- 

 ing to Jerdon) found it inhabiting the lofty trees of the dense woods of the 

 ghauts, and found the larvse of flies, spiders and ants in its stomach, Jerdon 

 got a specimen in the Bustar country south-east of Nagpore in thick forest 

 at about 2,000 feet elevation, 



727- -ZEthopyga seherise (Tickeii), Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 122; 



Shelley, Monog. Ned. pi. 22 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 89; Jerd. B. Lid. i. 

 p. 364, No. 225. Nectarinia seheriae, Tick., J . A. S. B. ii. p. 577; Walden t 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 347-348. Cinnyris Miles, Hodgs., Ind. Rev. ii. p. 273; id., 

 J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 575. Certhia goalpariensis, Royle, III. Him* Bot. ii. 

 p. 78, pi. 7, fig. 10. Nectarinia goalpariensis, yard., Monog. Sun-birds, 

 pp. 230, 267, pi. 26. ythopyga Milesi, Cab. Mus. Hein. \. p. 103 ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i, p. 362 ; Blyth and Wald., Cat. B. Burm. p. 141 ; Wald., Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 348; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 28; Anderson, Zool. Yunnan Expd. p. 66l. 

 The Eastern (par., yEthopyga cara.) ; Cynniris mystacalis (pt.), Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xi. p. 107 (1842). Nectarinia goalpariensis (pt.), Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xii. p. 969 (1843). ^thopyga Miles, Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, 

 p. 541; id., Ibis, 1876, p. 348; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 419. yEthopyga 

 Lathami, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 473. ^Ethopyga cara, Hume id. v. p. 71 ; 

 no/evi. p. 179; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 348; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. 

 p. 179(1878); Shelley, Monog. Nectarinidce^. 63, pi. 21; Oates, B. JBr. 

 Burm, i. p. 316. The TENASSERTM YELLOW-BACKED HONEYSUCKER. 



PLATE. 



Adult male. Anterior half of crown, upper tail coverts and central pair of 

 tail feathers metallic violet green ; the crown purplish green, the tail dark 

 green ; hinder part of crown and nape, also the tail and the long fluffy feathers 

 of the sides of the back olive brown ; quills and wing coverts brown, edged 

 with olive ; under wing coverts and axillaries and the under lining of quills 

 white ; lower breast, abdomen and flanks grey, more or less strongly washed 

 with olive. 



Dr. Gadow's observations on the species from the specimens in the British 

 Museum collection are as follows : 



The amount of olive colour on the under parts varies from olive greenish 

 or yellowish (^. goalpariensis, Royle, from Kumaon and N.-W. Himalayas) to 

 a clear pale ashy grey (typical & Miles, Hodgs., from Nepaul). In 



