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d"". Metallic portions of the wings and lower back strongly- 

 glossed with blue. 

 d 1 "". Metallic portion of the throat longer and rounded off 



on the front of the chest mysorensis, p. 119. 



e"'". Metallic portion of the throat shorter, and abruptly 



ending in a straight line jobiensis, p. 121. 



d'". Crown golden .,,..,. maforensis, p. 123. 



c 1 . Throat green theresas, p. 125. 



II. Neclarophila group. Membrane over the nostrils not always feathered. 

 Non-metallic parts rarely black. Metallic colours confined to the same 

 parts as in the last group. Bill and tail short. 



a. Membrane covering the nostrils feathered. 



a'. Scapulars metallic. Mantle black hasselti, p. 127. 



b'. Scapulars not metallic. Mantle red. Rump green. 



b". Chest scarlet speratus, p. 131. 



c". Chest yellow julice, p. 135. 



b. Membrane covering the nostrils bare. Scapulars not metallic. Rump 



not green. 



V . Mantle brown. Rump violet-shaded steel-blue zeylonicus, p. 137. 



c'. Mantle red. Rump bright red, strongly washed with metallic 



lilac minimus, p. 143. 



III. Cyrtostomus or Olive-backed Asiatic group. In this and the following 

 groups the membrane covering the nostrils is always bare. Upper 

 parts olive ; breast yellow, orange-red, or black ; metallic colours con- 

 fined to the crown, throat, and upper tail-coverts. 



a. Throat not metallic, upper tail-coverts metallic flagrans, p. 147. 



b. Throat metallic, upper tail-coverts olive. 

 b'. Under surface of the body yellow. 



h" . Pectoral tufts not darker than the chest. 



b'". No yellow eyebrow nor loral band. Sides of the throat shaded 

 with green. 

 b"". Entire chest chrome yellow. Forehead always steel-blue . aurora, p. 149. 

 c"". Chest gamboge-yellow, occasionally shaded about the 

 middle with chrome-yellow. Forehead rarely metallic, 



but often slightly tinted with steel-blue jugularis, p. 151. 



c'". Eyebrow and loral band yellow. Sides of the throat not 



shaded with green frenatus, p. 153. 



c". Pectoral tufts darker than the chest. 



c"'. With a non-metallic maroon-and-black collar. 

 c"". Forehead not metallic. 



c'"". Sides of the throat shaded with green. Pectoral tufts 



uniform gamboge-yellow. Breast paler. Bill longer . andamanicus, p. 157. 

 d'"". Sides of the throat steel-blue, not shaded with green. 

 Pectoral tufts red and yellow. Breast darker. Bill 



shorter flammaxillaris , p. 161. 



d"". Forehead metallic rhizophora, p. 163. 



d'". With no non-metallic collar. Forehead metallic .... pectoralis, p. 165. 



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