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tubular flowers of a parasite growing in abundance on one of the Himalayan species of Quercus. 

 The females and young males were by far the most numerous, the latter frequently showing a 

 feather or two of the more brilliant parts of the plumage, while many of the old males had lost 

 their long tail-feathers. Their food consisted chiefly of honey, with the addition of a few very 

 minute insects." 



Mr. Vigors dedicated this species to Mrs. Gould in acknowledgment of the services rendered 

 to science by that accomplished artist, who executed the designs for her husband's earlier 

 works. 



My description of the adult male I have taken from a specimen collected by Major Godwin- 

 Austen in the Naga hills. In the Marquis of Tweedd ale's collection I have also examined 

 specimens from Runglen, Simla, and one from fifty miles inland from Keleyhing ; and in the 

 British Museum are skins from Kumaon and Nepal. The female I have described from a 

 specimen in Mr. Gould's cabinet ; the young males from specimens kindly lent to me for that 

 purpose by Mr. Hume, one being from Kotegurh, the second from Mussoorie. 



