52 NOVELTIES. 



Of sanguinipectus Lord Walden says : — u All the chin, throat, 

 and two streaks diverging from the throat and descending to 

 the breast, metallic violet blue." Now, in the present species, 

 the entire chin and the extreme upper portions of the throat are 

 non-metallic black, the whole of the rest of the throat, in fact 

 the crop, is metallic pui-ple, and from this two narrow streaks of 

 the same colour run upwards to the gape, bounding on either 

 side the dull black chin and extreme upper throat. 



Then Lord Walden says : — " The remainder of under-surface, 

 pale yellow ; many of the lower breast feathers being centred 

 and streaked with blood red." In the present species just the 

 tipper breast below the black line that bounds the huge purple 

 crop patch is pale yellow, and many of the feathers are centred 

 with orange red, but the whole of the rest of the lower parts are 

 olive green, albeit slightly yellowish. 



Again, Lord Walden says that, except as regards the parti- 

 culars as noted by him, his bird is like saturata, but this present 

 species further differs from saturata in having the sides of the 

 neck up to the ear-coverts deep maroon like the back. 



I do not think it likely that Lord Walden's description can 

 have erred in all these important particulars, and I have therefore, 

 believing the species to be new, named it after him in acknow- 

 ledgment of his valuable paper on the Sun birds of the Indian 

 and Australian regions which appeared in the " Ibis" of 1870. 



This new species was obtained by Mr. Davison along with 

 yE. Dabrii, Verr. and many other interesting species at Col. 

 Tickell's celebrated, but hitherto little visited, collecting ground 

 Mooleyit. 



The following are the dimensions and an exact description 

 of both sexes : — 



Male. — Length, 5'5 ; expanse, 6*4 ; tail from vent, 2*8 ; 

 wing, 2 - 08 ; tarsus, 055 ; bill from gape, 0*8; weight 0"25 oz. 

 Bill, black ; legs and feet, dark brown. 



Forehead, crown, occiput, nape, and extreme upper back, 

 metallic blue, with a strong purple tinge ; lores, orbital region, 

 ear-coverts, chin, and extreme upper part of throat, dull black ; 

 entire sides of the neck as far up as the ear-coverts, back, ex- 

 cept the extreme upper portion, and scapulars, maroon red ; a 

 conspicuous pale greenish yellow rump-band ; upper tail-coverts 

 and basal two-thirds of central tail-feathers, like the crown, but 

 less purple ; terminal third of central tail-feathers and lateral 

 tail-feathers, dull blackish brown, the latter distinctly paler on 

 the lower surface towards the tips ; entire crop bounded on 

 either side by black ear-coverts and maroon sides of the neck, 

 metallic purple, with two narrow stripes of the same colour 

 running upwards on either side to the gape, and thus bounding 



