354 KECTAErNIIDJE. 



890. JEthopyga saturata. The Black-breasted Yellow-backed 

 Sun-bird. 



Cinnyris saturatus, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. ii, p. 273 (1837). 



Nectarinia saturata (Hodg8.\ Blyth, Cat. p. 224. 



^Etkopyga saturata (Hodgs. \Horsf. 8f M. Cat.u,?. 735 5 Jerd. B. I. 

 i, p. 367 ; Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 36 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, 

 pt. ii, p. 98 ; Hume, N. 8f E. p. 147 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, 

 pt. ii, p. 70 ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. pp. xx, xxi, 35, pi. 11 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 231 ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 15 : Hume, S. F. xi, p. 82 : Oates 

 in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 250, 



The Black-breasted Honey-sucker, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, and hind neck metallic 

 steel-blue ; back dark red ; lesser wing-coverts, scapulars, and lower 

 back dull deep black ; the black of the lower back succeeded by a 

 yellow band ; rump and upper tail-coverts metallic steel-blue ; 

 tail dull black except the basal two-thirds of the middle pair of 

 feathers, which are metallic steel-blue ; median, greater, primary - 

 coverts, and winglet dark brown edged with black ; quills brown, 

 edged narrowly with olivaceous ; lores and sides of the head black ; 

 sides of neck dull red ; chin, throat, breast, and upper abdomen 

 deep black ; a broad moustachial streak metallic steel-blue ; re- 

 mainder of lower plumage pale greenish ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale yellowish white. 



Female. General colour light green; a broad band of light 

 yellow across the rump ; the wings and tail margined with olive- 

 green ; the under wing-coverts and axillaries clear pale yellow ; the 

 three or four outer pairs of tail-feathers blackish, broadly tipped 

 with dull white. 



Bill black ; legs brown ; iris brown (Jerdon). 



Length of .male nearly 6 ; tail 3 ; wing 2-15 ; tarsus '55 ; bill 

 from gape '8 ; the female has the tail 1*6 and the wing 1*9. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Garhwal to the extreme east 

 of Assam ; the Khasi hills ; Manipur. This species appears to be 

 found up to 5000 feet. 



Habits, $c. The nest of this bird appears, from Hodgson's de- 

 scription,- to resemble that of ^E. seherice. The breeding-season 

 commences in April. The eggs are described as being white marked 

 with brown and measuring about '6 by '43. 



891. .ZEthopyga sanguinipectus. Walderis Yellow -backed Sun- 

 bird. 



^Ethopyga sanguinipectus, Wald. A. M. N. H. (4) xv, p. 400 (1875) ; 

 Hume, S. F. iii, p. 402 ; Wald. in Blyth' s Birds Burin, p. 142 ; 

 Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 182 ; Hume, Cat. no. 231 bis ; Shelley, 

 Mon. Nect. pp. xx, xxi, 37, pi. 12 ; Oates, B. B. \, p. 313 ; Gadow, 

 l at. B. M. ix, p. 27; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, 

 p. 590, vii, p. 395. 



^Ethopyga waldeni, Hume, S. F. v, p. 51 (1877). 



