226 NECTARINIID^:. 



p. 182; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 89; Shelley, Monogr. Nectar., p. 37, pi. 21 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm., i. p. 313 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 27. ^Etho- 

 pyga Waldeni, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 51. The BURMESE YELLOW-B^CKEJ) 



SUN-BlRD. 



PLATE. 



Forehead, crown, nape and hindneck purplish steel blue ; sides of the head 

 dull black ; sides of the neck, the back, and the shorter scapulars red ; lesser 

 wing coverts, longer scapulars and a band on the back below and next to the 

 red deep black ; next this black band another yellow one ; remainder of the rump, 

 upper tail coverts, and the basal three-quarters of the central tail feathers steel 

 blue ; remainder of the tail, median, and greater wing coverts and the quills 

 blackish brown; chin black; throat purplish steel blue ; tipper breast black, 

 the .lateral feathers tipped with red, remainder of the lower plumage pale 

 yellow ; the breast streaked with scarlet ; under wing coverts and' axillaries- 

 yellowish white. (Oates) , . 



Capt. Shelley describes the female as having the upper half of the head and 

 back of the neck olive shaded ashy brown, with the centres of the feathers 

 rather darker ; back, scapulars, least and median series of wing coverts and the 

 upper tail coverts olive green ; remainder of the wings dark brown, with the ? 

 greater series of coverts and the quills broadly edged with" yellowish ;* 

 across the lowe"r back a band of very pale olive-tinted yellow ; tail brownish 

 black, the feathers edged with olive, and most of them with whitish tips, 

 broadest on the outer ones ; on the sides of the head a small black patch in 

 front of the eyes, beneath which is a nearly white loral band ; chin and throat 

 pale dusky olive ; chest more olive ; lower breast, abdomen and under ta.il 

 coverts very pale olive yellow ; thighs brown ; flanks nearly white ; und-er 

 surface of the wings dark brown. Legs and feet very dark reddish or purplish 

 brown; bill black ; irides very deep brown. (Davison.) 



Length. 5-5 inches ; wing 2' I ; tail 2-7 ; tarsus O'5 ; culmen 07. 



Hab. Hills of Karenne in Burmah extending to Mooleyit in Tenasserim. 



731. JEthOpyga gOUldise (Vigors), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 103; 

 Jerd., B. Ind. i.p. 364, No. 227 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 419 ; Stol. j f . A. S. 

 B. xxxvii. pt. ii. p. 23 ; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 35 ; Jerd., Ibis, 1872, p. 16 ; 

 Blyth B. Burm. p. 141 ; Shelley, Monog. p. 41, pi. 14; Oates, B. Br. 

 Burm. \ p. 315; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 28. Cinnyris Gouldia?, 

 Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 41 ; Gould, Cent. Him. B pi. 56 ; Ely fa, J. A. S. 

 B. xi. p. 192. Nectarinia Gouldiae, Jard., Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 233, 269 ; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 974; Gould, B. Asia, pt. 21, pi. 6. MRS. GOULD'S 



HONEYSUCKER. 



Forehead, crown, chin, throat and posterior part of the ear coverts coppery 

 red or burnished purple according to the light ; lores blackish ; a line of feathers 

 over the lores crimson ; cheeks, sides of the head and neck, entire mantle, 



