SUB-GENUS LILLIA, (BOIE, 1850.) 265 



No white spot or mark on the tail feathers. 



Throat rufescent white ; rest of lower parts rather pale sal- 

 mon buff, brightening to warm salmon colour on axillaries and 

 wing-lining, every feather with a blackish brown shaft stripe 

 very fine, mere shaftiues, on the axillaries, but very strongly 

 marked elsewhere. The black visible portions of the longer 

 lower tail-coverts, 0'65 to 07. 



Crown, mantle and tips of upper and lower tail-coverts with 

 a high lustre, greener and less blue than in any other of our 

 species. Wings and tail brown, but with a very marked 

 greenish lustre. 



I will now add a very brief diagnostical table of the 11 

 species to which I have referred, which, with the remarks 

 above offered, ought to enable any one to separate full pluma^ed 

 adults of any of these species as 1 understand them. 



But avowedly my knowledge is most imperfect, and my 

 great object in putting forth this cursory notice is to induce 

 more competent authorities at home who can command series 

 of the species of which I have none or only single specimens, 

 to investigate the group systematically. 



Fully tlumaged Adults. 



Rump unstriated. 



Lower surface unstriated. 



Wing, 5 to h"l ... ... melanocrissa. 



„ 4*75 ... ... domicella. 



Lower surface striated. 



Striations fine and inconspicuous, 

 more or less obsolete on abdomen. 



Rump band paling conspicuously to- 



wards tail. Wing over 5'0 ... rufllta. 



Rump band uniform. Wing under 45. er//t/l?'0pi/qict. 



Striations well marked on entire 

 loicer surface. 



Wing 5 — ? ; usually a white spot on 

 outer tail feathers. Wing and tail 

 shining black; rump band extending 

 almost to middle of back ; ears ashy, alpestris. 



Wing 5-0 to 52 ; no white on tail ; wings " 

 and tail brown ; rump band 09 to l'O; 

 ears brownish buff, striated dusky ... intermedia 



Wing 4-6 to 4 8 ; no white on tail ; wings 

 and tail brown ; rump band 8 to l'O ; 

 ears clingy yellowish white or pale dingy 

 rufescent, densely striated with dusky, nipalensix. 



