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down on the sides of the throat, bright metallic violet purple ; 

 the chin and throat, dull pale ferruginous ; the rest of the lower 

 parts, bright yellow ; only the upper part of the breast, slightly 

 tinged with this same dull ferruginous color. The quills and 

 their greater coverts, hair brown ; the latter, at least those of the 

 secondaries, margined on their exterior webs with dark metallic 

 green ; wing-lining, axillaries, and the inner margins of the 

 inner webs of the quills towards their bases, silky white, with 

 a faint yellowish tinge. Tail, black or blackish brown; the 

 feathers, margined on their outer webs with bright metallic 

 emerald g'reen. 



The female entirely wants the metallic colors of the male ; the 

 lower parts are much as in the male, but slightly paler ; the top 

 and back of the head, cheeks, ear coverts, lesser and median 

 coverts, back scapulars and upper tail coverts, dull green, brighten- 

 ing somewhat on the upper tail coverts ; quills and their greater 

 coverts and their rectrices, hair brown ; the feathers, margined on 

 their outer webs, and in the case of the tertiaries and central 

 tail feathers, more or less suffused everywhere with olive green. 



234.— Arachnecthra asiatica, Lin. 



Specimens from Thayetmyo, at least those few that I have seen, 

 have been remarkable by the entire absence of any greenish 

 gloss in any light ; whereas Indian asiaticce are more or less 

 glossed in certain lights with green. I do not know whether 

 this peculiarity is accidental or constant. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " Very common about us. Birds in black 

 plumage are the rule here, the so-called winter plumage being 

 rarely seen. Several that I measured, varied as follows : Length, 

 4'3 to 4'6 ; expanse, 6*6to6 - 9; tail, from vent, 1'35 to 1*4; 

 wing, 2-1 to 2-2; bill, from gape, 0*8 to 0-82 ; tarsus, 0-57 to 0-6. 

 Legs and feet, black ; claws, dark horny ; irides, hazel ; eyelids, 

 grey." 



236.— Dicseum cruentatum, Lin. 



Captain Feilden obtained this species at Thayetmyo. 



Captain Feilden also mentions : " A common Honey-Sucker 

 with a green head, purple tail coverts and yellow breast," which 

 must, I fancy, be (232) Leptocoma zeylonica, Lin. 



I may add that Mr. Blanford also got JD. cruentatum at 

 Thayetmyo. 



250.— Sitta neglecta, Walden? 



The Thayetmyo birds that I have seen, though nearer to castaneo- 

 verdris than any other which I know, are not — at least the few that 



