18^ 



Cinnyris strigula, Hodgs. torn. cit. p. 272; Gray, Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 82. 



Nectarinia mahrattensis, Jarcl. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 222, 264, pi. 24 (1843) ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. B. xii. p. 973 (1843); id. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 557 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98. 



no. 51 (1847); Haiti. J. f. O. 1854, p. 165. 

 Nectarinia chrysoptera, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98. no. 78 (1847). 

 Nectarinia asiatica, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. pp. 224, 328. no. 1360 (1849); Layard, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. (2) xii. p. 175 (1853) ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. 8, pi. 2 (1856); Moore, P. Z. S. 



1857, p. 101 ; id. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 497; Pelzeln, Ibis, 1868, p. 307. 

 Arachnechthra currucaria, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 105. no. 572 (1850); Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 17. 

 Arachnechthra asiatica, Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 295. no. 691, pi. 579. figs. 3939-41 



(1854); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 370 (1862); Beavan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 375; Bulger, P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 569; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 421; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 20; Holdsworth, 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 434; Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. p. 151 (1873); id. Str. F. 1873, 



p. 174; Cock and Marshall, torn. cit. p. 351 ; Adams, torn. cit. p. 374; Lloyd, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 408; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 396; Hume, torn. cit. p. 473; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 285; 



Morgan, torn. cit. p. 315 ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 87; Brooks, torn. cit. p. 233 ; Fairbank, 



Str. F. 1876, p. 256; Armstrong, torn. cit. p. 313 ; Hume, torn. cit. pp. 393, 458. 

 Arachnechthra mahrattensis, Reichb. Handb. Scansoriae, p. 295. no. 692 (1854). 

 Cyrtostomus currucaria, Reichb. torn. cit. p. 308. no. 724. pi. 570. fig. 3890. 

 Arachnothera asiatica, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 112. no 1381 (1869). 

 Arachnechthra intermedia, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 436; Jerd. Ibis. 1872, p. 18; Hume, Nests 



& Eggs Ind. B. p. 154 (1S73). 

 Nectarinia (Arachnechthra) brevirostris, Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 86; id. Eastern Persia, ii. 



p. 220, pi. 14 (1876). 



<S ad. supra ex violaceo chalybeus, viridi nitens : alis saturate brunneis, tectricibus minimis et medianis et 

 scapularibus cbalybeis dorso coneoloribus : reetricibus nigris, vix metallice violaceo limbatis : subtus 

 niger, metallice violaceo nitens : capite laterali et gutture chalybeis dorso coneoloribus vix virescen- 

 tioribus : mento et fascia lata per gulam mediam ducta saturate metallice violaceis, hac prsepectoraliter 

 magis chalybea, : fasciis pectoralibus flavo et aurantiaco-rubro mixtis. 



5 ad. supra cinerascenti-brunnea, capitis lateribus dorso coneoloribus, supercilio fulvido lato, vix tamen 

 distincto : alis saturate brunneis, plumis cinerascenti-brunneo limbatis : reetricibus nigris, quibusdam 

 extends albo terminatis, externis latius apicatis : subtus fulvesceus, gula inferiore et pectore medio 

 flavo adumbratis. 



I lab. in regione Indica. 



Adult Male. Upper parts violet-shaded steehblue, glossed with dark green; wings dark brown, with the 

 least and median series of coverts and the scapulars steel-blue like the back ; tail black, the feathers 

 partially edged with metallic violet ; underparts black, glossed with metallic violet ; sides of the head 

 and throat steel-blue like the back, or slightly greener ; chin and a broad central band down the throat 

 deep metallic violet, which colour shades into steel-blue on the crop ; pectoral tufts yellow and orange- 

 red ; under tail-coverts broadly, and more or less distinctly, edged with violet-shaded steel-blue ; under- 

 suvface of the wings brown with the coverts black ; bill and legs black ; irides dark brown. Total 

 length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-2, tad 15, tarsus 06. 



