408 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



the central feathers, except the terminal, 1*5 to 2 inches, are 

 brilliant metallic green, somewhat darker, but scarcely less res- 

 plendent than the speculum of the male Mallard {Anas boschas). 

 To this succeeds a cuneiform band (the apex pointing towards 

 the rump), which beginning in golden green shades into bright 

 purple, and then into deep blue, beyond which the rest of the 

 tip is a bluish green with, like the rest of the tail, the richest 

 metallic lustre. 



Some of the lesser coverts at the carpal joint are black, 

 glossed with green ; the median and greater primary coverts, 

 and the outer webs and tips of all but the first three primaries 

 are a metallic bluish green ; the outer webs of the first 

 three primaries are dusky or black, more or less glossed with 

 the same colour as their neighbours ; the inner webs of the 

 secondaries and tertiaries, except quite the hindermost of the 

 latter, are black ; the outer webs of secondaries and tertiaries, 

 and the inner webs of the hindermost of the latter, are metallic 

 blue, more or less glossed with green ; all the earlier secondaries 

 with a conspicuous stripe of golden green just inside their mar- 

 gins for the basal two-thirds of their length. — Hume, i( Lahore 

 to Yarkand." 



673 bis.— Cissa ornata, Wagl. 



Adult. — General colour deep blue, shading off into bright 

 cobalt on the rump and upper tail-coverts; head and neck all 

 round, as well as the chest, chestnut ; the rest of the under sur- 

 face deep blue, shading off into brilliant cobalt on the abdomen 

 and flanks ; thighs ultramarine ; wing-coverts rich ultramarine ; 

 the rest of the wing chestnut on the outer webs, blackish on the 

 inner one ; the innermost secondaries shaded with blue on the 

 inner web ; the first primary black, washed with blue externally ; 

 tail deep blue, more or less shaded with cobalt, broadly tipped 

 with white, before which is a tolerably broad bar of black ; 

 under wing-coverts blue, shading off into grey on the inner- 

 most ; the inner lining of the quills blackish, externally edged 

 with chestnut, and inclining to rufous near the base of the inner 

 web ; bill red ; bare skin round the eye crimson ; feet coral 

 red; iris light brown. Total length, 17 inches; culmen, 1*6 ; 

 wing, 6 - 5 ; tail, 10*5 ; tarsus, 1*8. 



Young. — All the colours duller than in the adult ; the wing- 

 coverts greyish black, with a slight wash of blue ; lower back, 

 rump, and under surface of body grey, with only a slight 

 tinge of blue ; bill blackish.— Sharpens Catalogue) 111. 



