CLASSIFICATION. xliii 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat and chest without metallic colours. Female never adorned 



with metallic colours, and with the back always clear olive. 

 a!. General plumage olive. 



a". Breast strongly striped hypogrammica, p. 305. 



b". Breast without stripes. 



b'". No portion of the plumage metallic. Pectoral tufts orange- 

 red fraseri, p. 307. 



c'". Only forehead metallic. No pectoral tufts simplex, p. 309. 



b'. General plumage in the male not olive. Entire upper parts 

 metallic. 

 b". No metallic colours on the cheeks and ear-coverts. Larger. 

 b'". Throat rosy-red. Cheeks and ear-coverts strongly shaded 



with rufous rhodolama, p. 313. 



c'": Throat brown. Cheeks and ear-coverts olive. 

 c"". Smaller. 



c"'". Breast and pectoral tufts nearly the same shade of 



yellow malaccensis, p. 315. 



d""'. Breast yellowish olive, contrasting strongly with the 



bright yellow pectoral tufts celebensis, p. 319. 



d"". Larger. Breast olive-yellow, contrasting rather strongly 



with the bright yellow pectoral tufts chlorigastra, p. 321. 



d'". Throat silvery grey griseigularis, p. 323. 



c". Cheeks and ear-coverts ruby-copper. Smaller phomicotis, p. 325. 



b. Throat or collar of metallic colours. Females generally adorned with 



metallic colours, and with the back never clear olive. 

 V . Female — mantle ashy or dusky brown, and not metallic. 



b". Metallic parts confined to the throat and front half of the crown. 

 A broad band down the centre of the chest and the under tail- 

 coverts scarlet anchieta, p. 329. 



c". Male — chin and upper half of the throat not metallic, remainder 

 of the head, neck, and mantle metallic green. Female with- 

 out metallic colours. 



c'". Chin and upper half of the throat yellow : . . rectirostris, p. 331. 



d"'. Chin and upper half of the throat ashy grey tephrolama, p. 333. 



d". Male — chin, throat, and entire upper parts metallic violet or 

 steel-blue. Female with the same metallic colours confined 



to the upper tail-coverts and tail longuemarii, p. 335. 



c'. Female- — entire upper parts of metallic colours, similar to the male. 

 In the male sides of the head, chin, and upper half of the throat 

 also metallic, 

 c". Larger. Metallic portion of the throat shorter, and not ending 



in a steel-blue collar. Pectoral tufts orange aurantia, p. 337. 



d". Smaller. Metallic portion of the throat longer, and ending in 

 a steel-blue collar. Pectoral tufts yellow. 



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