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metallic violet, with only the centre of the chin black ; the black on the chest is confined to a 

 broad pectoral band at the base of the metallic throat, extending down the sides of the upper 

 chest ; and the upper chest is pale yellow distinctly mottled with bright scarlet, from which latter 

 character it has derived its name of sang uini pectus. 



It is a very rare bird in collections; and the only specimens I am aware of are the six 

 collected by Mr. Wardlaw Ramsay at Karen-nee, in the Tonghoo hills, in March and April 

 1874, and those collected at Mooleyat, in British Burmah, in January 1877, by Mr. Davison, 

 from whose notes I have taken the colouring of the bill, legs, and irides. 



I have described the adult male from one of the type specimens from Karen-nee in the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale's collection. The description of the female, as well as the illustrations of 

 both sexes, are taken from the specimens collected by Mr. Davison, and described as jE. waldeni 

 by Mr. Hume, who has kindly forwarded them to me from India to compare with the types of 

 JE. sanguinipectvs, to which species they evidently belong. 



