JETHOPYGA NIPALENSIS. 



(NEPAL YELLOW- BACKED SUN-BIRD.) 



Cinnyris nipalensis, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. ii. p. 273 (1837) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 192. no. 51 



(1842) ; Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 82. 

 Nectarinia nipalensis, Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 236, 268, pi. 27 (1842) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xii. p. 974 (1843); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 224. 



no. 1355 (1849); Gould, B. Asia, part 2, pi. 27(1850); Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 405. no. 12 



(1850). 

 JEtlwpyga nipalensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 103. no. 564 (1850) ; Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, 



p. 302. no. 706, pi. 585. figs. 3976-78 (1854); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 



p. 785. no. 1070 (1856); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 366 (1862); Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 414; 



Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 159; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 35. no. 21 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 17; 



Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. p. 147 (1873). 

 Promerops nipalensis, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 109. no. 1341 (1869). 



d ad. pileo et collo posticis et gutture toto saturate metallice viridibus, capite laterali et colli lateribus nigris 

 violaceo nitentibus : interscapulio et scapularibus summis rubris : scapularibus reliquis, tectricibus 

 alarum et remigibus extus olivaceis : uropygio flavo : supracaudalibus, rectricibus duabus centralibus 

 et reliquarum margmibus metallice viridibus : rectricibus aliter nigris versus apicem brunnescentibus : 

 corpore reliquo subtus lsetissime flavo, pectore scarlatino notato : subcaudalibus olivascentibus : rostro 

 nigro : pedibus saturate brunneis : iride saturate brmmea. 



5 suprS, olivascenti-flava, tectricibus alarum minimis et medianis dorso concoloribus : pileo nuchaque vix 

 cinerascentibus : dorso postico pallidiore flavicante : ala reliqua saturate brunnea, tectricibus majoribus 

 olivascenti-flavo, remigibus brunnescenti-flavo marginatis : rectricibus brunnescenti-nigris, duabus 

 mediis olivascenti-flavo lavatis, reliquis basaliter hoc colore lavatis, apiealiter pallidioribus, intus ad 

 apicem albidis : capite laterali pallidiore et quam pileus cinerascentiore : gula cinerascente vix 

 olivaceo tincta. : pectore, abdomine et tibiis olivascenti-flavis, liypochondriis stramineis : subcaudalibus 

 saturate flavis : ala. subtus saturate brunnea, subalaribus et remigibus intus albis : rostro nigro : 

 pedibus et iride nigris. 



Hab. in montibus Himalayensibus. 



Adult Male. Upper half of the head and back of the neck deep metallic green, narrowly margined on the 

 back with black ; upper back, lower portion of the sides of the neck, and part of the scapulars deep 

 red ; remainder of the scapulars and broad margins to all the wing-feathers olive-yellow ; remainder of 

 the wings blackish brown ; lower back gamboge-yellow ; upper tail-coverts deep metallic green ; tail 

 black with the basal three quarters of the two centre feathers and the edges of the others deep metallic 

 green, and all but the two centre feathers with broad pale ends; sides of the head and the greater 

 portion of the sides of the neck black, glossed with violet ; chin and throat deep metallic green ; under 

 surface of the body and the under tail-coverts gamboge-yellow, with the feathers of the chest strongly 



