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on each side narrowly tipped, generally on the inner webs 

 only, sometimes on part of the outer webs also, with dull 

 white. In some specimens a trace of this, a mere speck, may also 

 be observed on the two pairs next the central feathers. Lores, 

 cheeks and ear-coverts a rather duller greyer green ; in some spe- 

 cimens the lores more decidedly grey ; lower parts green, palest on 

 the chin and throat; all the feathers of the chin, throat, breast, and 

 abdomen to near the vent margined with white, yellowish white, or 

 pale yellow, giving a striated appearance to these parts. In many 

 specimens the lower tail-coverts are much yellower. In some they 

 are almost pure yellow, and the flanks and feathers about the 

 vent are then a good deal fringed with yellow. The wing-lin- 

 ing is white, a little tinged with pale yellow towards the edge, 

 and the inner margins of the quills, except towards the tips, are 

 satin white. 



The females are precisely like the males, except that they 

 have the parts that are steel blue in the male, colored like the 

 back. In both sexes the outer webs of the tail feathers towards 

 their bases are often a good deal suffused with the color of the 

 upper surface, and in many cases the first three quills and their 

 primary coverts and the winglet show very faint traces of the 

 olive green margins. 



225 ter — iEthopyga cara,* Hume. (11). Descr. S. F„ 

 II., 473^. 



{TongJioo, Lloyd.) Beeling ; Kaukaryifc, Houngthraw R. ; Moulmein ; Meetan ; 

 Lemyne ; Yea ; Tavoy ; Shymotee ; Pabyin ; Mergui ; Tenasserini Town. 



Occurs throughout the province, except in the north about 

 Pahpoon and in the extreme south. 



[I obtained this species everywhere from Mergui north- 

 wards, through Tavoy and Moulmein to Beeling, on the Thatone 

 plains, between the Sittang and the Salween, and it probably 

 extends somewhat further north than this between these two 

 rivers. East of the Salween I did not observe it much further 

 north than Moulmein. South of Tenasserim Town I have not 

 yet observed it. 



This and all the other true Honeysuckers were met with in 

 gardens, secondary growth (which springs up on forest clear- 

 ings), and on the outskirts of forests ; once only a little south 

 of Tea a few were seen in thick forest in a dense cane- brake. 



Of course, they are most abundant where flowers are most 

 numerous, and eocoanut palms when in flowerf are a particularly 

 favorite resort for this and other closely-allied species. 



* For key to all known species of JEthopyga, vide S. I\, V-, 71. 

 f As they almost always are, for they throw out a new inflorescence spike almost 

 every month. — A. 0. JE. ' 



