JETHOPYGA. 355 



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

 steel-blue ; sides of the head dull black ; sides of the neck, back, and 

 the shorter scapulars red ; lesser wing-coverts, the 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 middle tail-feathers 

 steel-blue ; remainder of the tail, the median and greater wing- 

 coverts, and the quills blackish brown ; lateral tail-feathers tipped 

 with white ; chin black ; throat purplish steel-blue ; upper breast 

 black, the lateral feathers tipped with red ; remainder of the lower 

 plumage dull green, the breast streaked with crimson; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries yellowish white. 



Female. Upper plumage dull green tinged with ashy, and the 

 feathers of the crown with dark centres : rump pale yellow ; lower 

 plumage ashy green, becoming paler on the abdomen ; tail blackish, 

 all the lateral feathers with pale tips ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries whitish. 



Bill black ; iris and legs dark brown ( Wardlaw Ramsay}. 



Male : length 5-5 to 6 ; tail 2-7 ; wing 2-1 ; tarsus *55 ; bill 

 from gape -8. Female : length about 4 ; tail 1*1 ; wing 1*8. 



Distribution. The Karen hills east of Toungngoo ; Karennee ; 

 Mulevit mountain in Tenasserim. This species is found at eleva- 

 tions above 2000 feet. 



892. JEthopyga nepalensis. The Nepal Yellow-backed 

 Sun-bird. 



Chmyris nipalensis, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. ii, p. 273 (1837). 



Nectarinia nipalensis (Hodgs.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 224. 



JEthopyga nipalensis (Hodgs.}, Horsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 735 ; Jerd. 



B. I. i, p. 366 ; Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 35 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 147 ; 



Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 70 ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. 



pp. xx, xxi, 29, pi. 10 ; Hume, Cat. no. 229 ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, 



p. 26 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 82 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. 



ii, p. 251. 



The Maroon-backed Honey-sucker, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, sides of 

 the crown, chin, and throat metallic green ; sides of the head black ; 

 sides of the neck and back deep red ; scapulars, lower back, and the 

 margins of all the wing-feathers olive-yellow ; rump bright yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts and the basal three quarters of the middle pair 

 of tail-feathers metallic green ; remainder of tail black, all the 

 feathers with broad pale tips except the two middle pairs ; lower 

 part of throat pure yellow ; breast and upper abdomen yellow 

 suffused with red and streaked with crimson ; remainder of lower 

 plumage dull greenish yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white. 



Female. Quite undistinguishable from the female of ^E. seherice. 



Bill nnd legs black ; iris brown (Coclclnirn*). 



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