86 A FIRST LIST OF THE 



In both magna and apparently aurata the females are con- 

 siderably smaller than the males, and the female magna further 

 differs in just the same particulars from its male, though perhaps 

 not quite to a like extent, that male aurata does. I am not 

 prepared to say how this latter and female magna are to be sepa- 

 rated, where the sexes have not been ascertained. 



In aurata the forehead, crown, occiput and nape, are bright, 

 somewhat golden, olive green ; each feather with a somewhat tri- 

 angular, black shaft stripe ; lores, cheeks, and ear coverts, browner 

 and duller-colored. The rest of the upper parts, colored much like 

 the head, but the feathers of the back and sides of the neck and 

 upper back, with excessively narrow darkish brown shaft-stripes; 

 those of the middle and lower back, and upper tail coverts are 

 almost or entirely streakless. Inner webs of coverts and quills 

 and tail feathers, hair brown. All the tail feathers, with a subter- 

 minal dark band, beyond which all the lateral tail feathers have 

 a pale patch on the inner web, more and more conspicuous as 

 the feathers recede from the centre. Chin, throat, breast, 

 abdomen and sides, dull white, more or less tinged with yellow 

 or olive green, every feather with a narrow central shaft stripe, 

 scarcely wider, as Mr. Blyth pointed out in the original descrip- 

 tion than the shafts themselves. Lower tail coverts, pale yellow, 

 with more or less of a brown shaft stripe, and a pale brownish 

 patch a little inside the tip. Wing limn"-, white or yellowish 

 white ; edge of the wing, rather bright yellow ; axillaries some- 

 times the same, sometimes yellowish white. 



233 bis, — CKalcoparia cingalensis, Gm. 



Though not appai'ently obtained by Mr. Oates or Captain 

 Feilden, this species was sent from Tonghoo by Sir Arthur 

 Phayre, and I have received it from other localities within our 

 limits. It is very common in the Tipperah District, from 

 whence, as well as from Malacca, Tenasserim, Dacca, and Assam, 

 I have received many specimens. 



The dimensions of this species taken, in the flesh, are as fol- 

 lows : — Male : Length, 3' 7 ; wing, 2" 2 ; tail, from vent, 1*6 ; tarsus, 

 0"6; bill, at front, 0"5. Female: Length, 3'8; expanse, 53; tail, 

 13 ; wing, 2 ; bill, at front, 0*55 ; tarsus, 0"58 ; weight, from 120 

 to 140 grains. 



Bill, black ; legs, feet, and claws, green, or dusky green. In the 

 male, the whole of the top and back of the head, back scapulars, 

 lesser and median wing coverts, and upper tail coverts, brilliant 

 metallic green, more emerald in some, slightly more golden in 

 others ; the rump, moderately dark olive green ; the ear coverts, 

 a rich ruddy metallic purple, (whence Temminck's name phceni- 

 cotis) , below these a narrow stripe commencing in the middle 

 of the lower margin of the eye, and broadening somewhat lower 



