.ETHOPYGA. 661 



B., vol. i, p. 292, 1869 J Ball, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 71; 1874, p. 412; Hume, Stray 



Feathers, 1873, p. 230; 1874, p. 477; 1875, p. 133; id.. Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p, 301, 



1874; Armstrong, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 327 ; Sharpe, Cat. B., B. M., vol. iii, 1877, p. 215. 

 Oriolus maderaspaiamis , Frankl., Proc. Zool. Soe., 1831, p. 118. 

 Oriohis M'Coshii, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, ii, p. 577, 1833. 

 Oriolus hodgsonii, Swains., An. in. Menag., p. 290, 1837 ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xi, 



p. 460, 1842; Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 83, 1844; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 232, 1845. 

 Oriolus strigipectus, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 83, 1844. 

 Owfe ceyfo»e«m, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 347, 1850; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. Ill, 1862; Sehl., 



Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 107, 1867; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i,p. 292, 1869; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. 



Soc, 1872, p. 453 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 439 ; Sharpe, Cat. B., B. M., vol iii 



]877, p. 216. 



a. S Sawady, 28th January 1875. 

 h. c. Bhamo, 28th January and February 1868. 



The black does not extend quite so far down the breast as in Indian birds. 

 It does not appear to be common about Bhamo, and I did not observe it in 

 the Kakhyen hills nor in the country beyond. 



VamiXy—NECTARINlDjE. 



Genus Arachnechthra, Cabanis. 

 171. Arachnechthra edeni, n. s. Plate XLIX. 



AraeMecktkra asiatica, Kxime, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 473, et 1875, p. 87; Blyth & "Walden, 

 Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 141. 



a. i Six miles below Bhamo, 31st January 1875. 



Mr. Hume, in his account of the bu-ds of Upper Pegu, mentions that all the 

 specimens which he has seen from Thayet-myo "have been remarkable by the 

 entire absence of any greenish gloss in any light. " This I find to be the case 

 with my Bhamo bird, which I have compared with a large series of Indian skins, 

 and there can be no doubt that Mr. Hume's observations are quite to the point, and 

 that the absence of green shade separates the Burmese from the Indian birds. 

 Although A. cmmcaria, vel asiatica appears purphsh above, the shade is very differ- 

 ent from the violet lustre of A. edeni, and in the latter this violet colour of the back 

 is continued on to the sides of the neck and cheeks, the purplish throat being margined 

 on each side with violet instead of with green, as is so evident in all specimens 

 of A. asiatica. The Bham6 example measures : total length 4"2 inches; culmen 

 0'75 ; wing 2'1 ; tail 1'5 ; tarsus 0-55. 



Genus .^thoptga, Cabanis. 



172. ^THOPYGA MILES, Hodgson. 



GouVpourah creeper, Lath., Gen. Hist. B., iv, p. 222, pi. Ixxiv, 1822. 



, Nectarinia seherice, Tickell, Journ, As. Soc, Bengal, vol. ii, p. 577, 1833. 



