xx CLASSIFICATION. 



that colour. Metallic colours confined to the head, neck, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; none of 

 the wing-coverts metallic. 



"Range. Indian, Malay, and Philippine regions. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Eximia group. Metallic portions confined to the crown and a bar 



across the middle of the throat eximia, p. 27. 



II. Metallic-necked group. Crown, back of the neck, and greater portion 

 of the throat metallic. 

 a. Metallic portions of the plumage green; entire rump yellow. 



a 1 . Mantle red; rump rich gamboge-yellow nipalensis, p. 29. 



b'. Mantle olive (sometimes tinted with red); rump pale sulphur- 

 yellow harsfieldi, p. 33. 



It. Metallic portions of the plumage blue or violet ; a narrow yellow band 

 across the rump. 



//. Chest black saturata, p. 35. 



c'. Chest pale yellow, mottled with scarlet sanyuinipectus , p. 37. 



111. Blue-throated group. Crown and entire throat metallic blue or violet; 

 nape and back of the neck red. 



a. Upper tail-coverts and edges of the tail-feathers metallic blue or violet. 



a'. Breast scarlet dabriji, p. 39. 



V. Breast yellow gou/dice, p. 41. 



b. Upper tail-coverts and entire tail scarlet ignicauda, p. 45. 



[V. Red-throated group. Throat and mantle red; with metallic blue or 



violet moustachial bands. 



n. Tail entirely scarlet temmincki, p. 17. 



b. Tail black, the feathers edged with metallic blue or violet; metallic 



portion of the crown and the upper tail-coverts blue or violet. 



15asal half of the feathers of the moustachial band black, forming a 



narrow inner margin of that colour. 



b'. A few red feathers on the centre of the forehead. Breast silvery 



grey. Throat with fine yellow stria3, and a well-marked broader 



streak down the centre of the middle throat mystacalis,^. 1'.'. 



c'. No red feathers on the forehead. 

 c". Breast nearly black. 



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Larger. Yellow streaks on the throat nearly obsolete, or 



entirely absent magnified, p. 51. 



d'". Smaller. Throat strongly streaked with yellow flavostriata, p. 53. 



d". Breast dusky ash, slightly tinted with olive. 



d 1 ". Bill shorter and weaker s'iparaja, p. 57. 



t"'. Bill longer and stronger nicobarica, p. 61. 



c. Tail black, the feathers edged with metallic green or violet. Crown 

 and upper tail-coverts metallic green, or green shaded with violet. 

 Moustachial band uniform metallic violet with no black portion of 

 the feathers visible. 

 c'. With no metallic spot on the sides of the head. 



