414 Novelties. — MtJiopyga Nicoharica. 



^THOPYGA? (Wellesley Province specimen) ma^^^ length, 4' 2 5 ; 

 wing-, 2-1; tail, 1-75-1-87 ; tarsus, 0*5 ; bill, at front, 0-52-0-55. 



I do not know the females of the above. 



tEthopyga nicobaeica. 



Dimensions, males, length, 4-4" 75 ; expanse, 6*25-6'5; wing, 

 1-82-2-lE; tail, from vent, l*6-3j tarsus, 0*5-0*55; bill, at front, 

 O71-0-79. 



Females, length, 3-82-4-35; expanse, 5-82-6-12 ; wing, 1-82-1-9 ; 

 tail, 1-25-1-6; tarsus, 0-5; bill, at front, 0-61-0-64. 



In the male, the legs and feet and upper mandible are dark 

 Tbrown, the lower mandible pale brown ; in the female, the upper 

 mandible is horny brown ; the lower mandible horny yellow, and 

 the legs and feet, yellow ; in both sexes, the irides are brown. 



The male has a large frontal patch, the upper tail coverts, the 

 central tail feathers, and the outer webs of the lateral tail feathers, 

 together with a long moustachial stripe from the base of the 

 lower mandible on either side, a beautiful deep metallic violet ; 

 the rest of the tail feathers are black ; the hinder part of the 

 crown, occiput, sides of the head, nape, interscapulary region, 

 scapulars, and middle back, a deep sanguineous red, the same 

 color as in miles ; a narrow stripe from the sides of the 

 tipper mandible, (immediately above the violet moustache,) chin, 

 throat, ^ and breast, a bright, somewhat orange scarlet, much 

 yellower and paler than in miles ; the bases of the feathers of 

 the chin and throat, a bright pale yellow, which shews through 

 move or less in most specimens, and in some very finely plum- 

 aged specimens, the bases of the breast feathers also are yellow, 

 and these shewing through present a streaked appearance, re- 

 minding one of Figorsi, the streaks, however, being much 

 narrower than in this species. Other specimens shew no traces 

 of these streaks on the breast ; wings, hair brown ; the outer 

 margins of the secondaries, tertiaiies, and some of the greater co- 

 Verts, obscurely tinged with dull olive green ; abdomen, flanks, 

 Vent, and lower tail coverts, a rather dusky grey, decidedly 

 tinged with olive green ; the males, in the most perfect plumage, 

 have a small blackish brown patch in the centre of the upper 

 abdomen, just below where the red of the breast terminates, a 

 similar, but larger, and more conspicuous patch occurs in Vigorsi ; 

 the rump is at first sight greyish black ; but when the feathers 

 are pushed aside, the central portion is a gamboge yellow, but 

 with more of an orange tinge than in miles, and the yellow 

 patch is much shorter than in this latter species, being about 

 0-3 in length, against 0"7 in 'niiles. 



The females have the whole upper surface a rather dark clear 

 olive green, the wings and tail are hair brown, the feathers 



