382 Mr. S. A. Buturlin on the Geographical 



E. Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 of a light and more or less dead lavender- 

 blue, greenisli- or yellowish-grey, or 

 olive-greenish colour ; black tail-bars 

 generally broad. 



c. Chest, breast, and flanks uniformly dark 



green ; sides of rump without a rusty- 

 orange patch 31. versicolor (p. 412). 



d. Under parts with more or less golden 



yellow or copper-red ; a rusty-orange 



patch on each side of the rump. 



t. No white collar or only slight traces 



of it. 



</'. Dark green of the neck extending 



to the middle of chest and breast. 



p. Flanks golden buff ; mantle 



bright sandy red ; scapulars 



bright sandy red or light 



brownish maroon with lighter 



edges, but not freckled with 



whitish or blackish in the 



centres 30. vlanyali (p. 412). 



t'. Flanks coppery maroon ; mantle 

 maroon, scapulars bright 

 maroon with paler tips and 



black and buff centres 2'J. elegant (p. 411). 



h'. Dark green of the neck banded 



in front by the golden yellow, 



fiery or coppery red of the chest. 



v'. Chest- and breast-feathers 



broadly margined with black, 



this black having a dark green 



gloss ; middle of breast and sides 



of belly slightly glossed with 



purplish green ; flanks buff . . 26. deeollatus (p. 409). 

 cp'. Chest- and breast-feathers nar- 

 rowly margined with black ; 

 flanks darker. 

 g". Darker ; mantle fiery orange 

 with narrow wedge-like 

 apical streaks of blackish 

 green ; broad scapular mar- 

 gins dark maroon-red ; chest 

 and breast bright fiery chest- 

 nut-red, feathers edged witli 

 purplish green ; flanks bright 



