230 NECTARINIID/E. 



Above brilliantly glossed with metallic green and purple ; throat and breast 

 rich purple ; a narrow bright maroon collar or band below this and the sooty 

 brown abdomen ; flanks and under wing coverts sooty brown ; pectoral tufts 

 pure yellow. Bill and legs black ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 5-5 inches ; wing 2-15 to 2-3 ; tail 1*5 ; tarsus 0*65 ; culmen r I 

 to i '3. The female like that of C. asiatica is silky or greyish white on the 

 under surface. 



Hab, Southern India and Ceylon. According to Jerdon common along 

 the Malabar Coast, and the more wooded parts of the Carnatic as about Madras 

 and other large towns. 



736. Cinnyris minima, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p 99; fykes, 



J. A. S. B. iii. p. 543 ; Jerd., Madr. Journ. xi. p. 226 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, 

 p. 572 ; Shelley, Monogr. Nee/, p. 143, pi. 46; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 ix. p. 62. Nectarinia minima, Tick., J. A. S. B. ii. p. 277. Nectarinia 

 minuta, Jard.* Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 224-265. Leptocoma minima, Horsf. 

 and Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 742 ; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 369 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 42 ; id., Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. i. p. 150; Fairbk., 

 Str. F. iv. p. 392. The TINY HONEYSUCKER. 



Entire crown metallic green ; throat metallic violet ; ear coverts and loral 

 region black; hind neck and sides of neck and a broad collar across 

 the foreneck and chest, also the back and wing coverts, rich bright sanguine or 

 blood-red ; rump and upper tail coverts metallic amethystine purple ; no distinct 

 pectoral tufts', undEr surface of the body pale lemon yellow. In winter 

 plumage the male resembles the female, but retains invariably the amethystine 

 rump, and usually a little red about the shoulder of the wing, (flume) 

 The female is olive brown above, has a red rump, and the under parts are 

 pale yellowish buff. 



Length. 3*5 inches ; wing 1*9; tail i'2; tarsus 0*52; culmen 0*58. 



Hal. South-Western India and Ceylon. Found on the west coast of India, 

 also on the Neilgherries to about 3,000 feet elevation, the Malabar Coast and 

 Travancore. 



737. Cinnyris zeylonica (Linn.), Vieill, N. Diet. d:Hist. Nat. 



xxxi. p. 507 ; Hahne, Vogt. pt. 7, pi. 4 ; Vieill, Enc. Meth. ii. p. 594 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. v. p. 270; Cripps, torn. cit. p. 267; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 569; Shelley, 

 Monogr. Ned. p. 137, pi. 45. Certhia zeylonica, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 188, 

 No. 23. Nectarinia zeylonica, Jard. t Monog. Sun-birds, pp. 213, 261, pi. 20; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 976; Gould, B. Asia, pt. 19, pi. 40. Lepto- 

 coma zeylonica, Cab. Mus. Hem, i. p. 104; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 368, No. 232 ; 

 Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 232; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 232; id. Sir. F. vii. 

 p. 208 ; Godw.- Austen, J . A. S. B. 1870, p. 267 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Ind. B. p. 147. Nectarophila zeylonica, Rdchb., Handl. Scans, p. 282, 

 pi. 570, figs. 3885-87. The AMETHYST-RUMPED HONEYSUCKER. 



