

metallic violet, the angle of which points upwards. In both sexes the flanks are white, and 

 contrast strongly with the centre of the body, which in the male is dusky olive, and in the female 

 bright olive-yellow. 



It is only known to inhabit the island of Java, where, according to Dr. Horsfield, the native 

 name is " Plichi Kembang." Some five years after Dr. Horsfield's original description, it was 

 renamed after Kuhl, a young Dutch naturalist of great promise, whose sad fate in the cause of 

 science justly entitled him to the warm sympathies expressed by Temminck in the ' Planches 

 Coloriees.' 



Midler and Schlegel give an interesting account of this species. It is distributed over the 

 highest mountain regions of the island, where it is found at elevations of from 8000 to 9000 feet 

 above the sea-level. Here it frequents the bushes which grow in the clefts of the lava-streams 

 of these volcanic ranges, and breeds in the high elevations during the dry season in May and 

 June. It feeds around the flowering-plants upon insects and their larvse, and occasionally upon 

 small berries, and during the cooler months descends into the valleys, and may then be seen 

 flitting about the coffee-plantations and native gardens. 



The specimens here figured and described are a male collected by Mr. Wallace, belonging to 

 the Marquis of Tweeddale, and a female in my own collection. 



