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p. 120) ? It breeds here regularly, and is by no means a rare 



species, although not so plentiful as P. ater. 



I am. Sir, 



Yours very obediently, 



Edward R. Alston. 

 Stockbriggs, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, 

 25th August, 1865. 



Zoological Museum, Tui'in, 

 September 7, 1865. 



Sir, — In the magnificent collection of Count Turati, at Milan, 

 I have seen a specimen of a beautiful species of ^thopyga, to 

 which I pi'opose to give the name of his lady, as a token of my 

 great respect. 



Neither this nor two other examples of the same species, which 

 I have since seen in the splendid collection ofM. Jules Verreaux 

 at Paris, bear any indication of the precise locality which they 

 inhabit ; but of course it is India or the Indian islands. I am 

 glad to say that M. Verreaux agrees with me in considering the 

 species undescribed. It approaches very nearly some others of 

 the same genus, especially j^. miles, ^. vigorsi, ^. siparaja, 

 j^. eupogon, ^. chalcopogon, and another, probably new, of which 

 1 have seen two examples in M. Verreaux's collection of Sun-birds. 



iETHOPYGA LODOISIA, Sp. nOV. 



Mas ad. rubro-sanguinea ; pileo mystacibusque splendide cya- 

 neis in violaceum vergentibus ; tectricibus caudse superioribus 

 rectricumque pogoniis externis splendide violaceo-purpureis j 

 loris nigris ; colli antici striga pallide flava ; macula frontali 

 rubro-sanguinea ; pectore rubro-coccineo, lineolis flavis vario ; 

 abdomine cinereo-griseo ; tibiarum parte infima tectrici- 

 busque caudse inferioribus pallide flavis; uropygio flavo- 

 citrino; remigibus tectricibusque alarum majoribus fuscis, 

 olivaceo limbatis ; pogoniis internis rectricum nigricantibus ; 

 rostro pedibusque fuscis. 



Long. tot. O'lOS mm.; alse 0*049; caud. 0"055; rostri a 

 fronte 0-015 ; tarsi 0-014. 



Head, neck, back, shoulders, scapulars, lesser and middle 

 wing-coverts sanguineous; a small triangular spot on the fore- 

 head and the eyebrow same as the back ; lores black ; middle of 

 the crown and stripe on each side of the neck glossy violet-blue. 



