1842.] Asiatic Society. 107 



gaster, McClelland and Horsfield (P. Z. S. 1839, 167). There are two specimens 

 also of this bird, which form an interesting series with two others previously in the 

 Museum, illustrative of the changes of plumage undergone by the species. Other spe- 

 cimens from Darjeeling are also before me, and I avail myself of the occasion to note 

 the following particulars : the young male has all the upper-parts, with the breast, 

 uniform Parrot-green, tinged with yellow on the throat ; the hyacinthine streak from 

 each side of the base of the lower mandible being reduced to slight tips to the feathers, 

 by no means conspicuous ; the lower tail-coverts are green, and this appears to have 

 been also the case with the whole under plumage ; shoulder-spot as usual : the fully (?) 

 mature female differs in having the upper-parts a slight shade more yellowish 

 green, but there is no yellow on the throat, which is tinged with verditer, and has a 

 well-defined hyacinthine streak on each side, not quite so deeply coloured as in the 

 male ; below the breast, the under-parts are mingled green and buff-orange, the lower 

 tail-coverts being of the latter hue, and the primary wing and tail feathers are green, 

 the latter a little tinged with bluish on their inner webs, and the former being slightly 

 edged with dull verditer, towards the tips only, excepting on the three outermost: at 

 the first moult, when the wing and tail primaries (as in vai'ious other birds) are not 

 changed, the young males assume the dusky-purple, or purplish-black, colour of 

 the throat, fore-neck, and breast, the black lores and ear-coverts, bright hyacinthine 

 moustache, and golden-buff colour of the belly and under tail-coverts, and one of 

 three specimens before me (in different stages of this moult,) having lost one of its 

 caudal feathers, no doubt by accident, has had it replaced by one a little longer than 

 the rest, and of a purple colour slightly mixed with green ; more or less dusky-purple 

 also appears, at this age, on the smaller wing-coverts, and especially below the generic 

 verditer tuft upon the shoulders of the wings ; the crown inclines to yellowish, and 

 in fact the mature plumage is everywhere attained, excepting on the wings and tail ; 

 the primaries and their coverts, with the winglet, and the caudal feathers, but not 

 the coverts of these, appearing, at the second moult, of a rich dark purple, which is 

 characteristic of the fully mature masculine livery, and hence Mr. Hodgson's ap- 

 pellation of cyanopterus. 



Cinnyris mysticalis : Nectarinia mysticalis, Temminck ; Goalpara Creeper of 

 Latham, and Certhia Goalpariensis of Royle's " Illustrations" ; Cinnyris Vigorsii, 

 Sykes, C. miles, Hodgson, and Nectarinia Seherice, Tickell. A fine specimen of this 

 gorgeous little bird, the range of which extends from the Himalaya to the Deccan, 

 and through Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula to Java. 



*C. Horsfielai, Nobis; a beautiful little species, allied to the last, together with 

 C. Nipalensis, Gouldii, saturata vel Assamensis, and several others, which I mean 

 shortly to describe — as also, 



* Anthreptes macularia, Nobis : a species allied in plumage to the Arachnothera. 



Eurylaimus nasutus, Tern. Mr. Swainson designates this species the "Black-billed 

 Gaper;" but I am assured that the beak is of a beautiful blue colour in the living 

 bird. 



Eur. ochromalus, Raffles, Lin. Trans, xiii, 297; the preceding species being there 

 described as Eur. lemniscatus, Raffles. 



* Coccothraustes melanoxanthos, Hodgson (As. Res. xix. 150). A magnificent 

 species of true Hawfinch, unfortunately not in very good condition, and in nestling 



