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on the abdominal region, which in old males occupies the entire 

 under- parts from the breast, with the exception of a little green on 

 the flanks posteriorly; these have also the tail and greater portion of 

 the wing dark purple, the tertiaries and adjoining coverts only re- 

 maining green, and the flexure of the wing verdigris-blue: throat 

 and fore-neck black, passing into dark glossy purple on the breast : a 

 large brilliant smalt-blue streak from each corner of the lower 

 mandible; and the head and neck tinged with yellow. In younger 

 males, the purple of the wings commences on the smallest coverts, 

 and there is sometimes an admixture of this hue upon the tail. 

 Females have less orange-saffron on the abdominal region, which is 

 more or less patched with this colour, and the throat and breast are 

 green, with the moustache-streaks less vivid than in the male. Nepal, 

 Bootan, Assam. 



2. Chi. aurifrons ; figured as Chi. Malabaricus in Messrs. Jardine 

 and Selby's ' Illustrations of Ornithology,' as subsequently corrected 

 by them in their Monograph of the genus. Has the crown brilliant 

 orange, or saffron-red, the feathers rigid and glistening ; throat wholly 

 glistening smalt-blue ; fore-neck black, surrounded by a yellow zone ; 

 wing-flexure verdigris-blue ; and the rest green. Two specimens 

 marked as female by Gapt. Tickell differ in no respect from the male, 

 excepting in being rather smaller, with the blue and glistening portion 

 of the throat- feathers less developed. The young of both sexes have 

 the forehead merely yellowish ; the fore-neck bluish-green, surrounded 

 by pale-yellow ; the blue of the throat being confined, or nearly so, to a 

 dull verdigris moustache ; and not any of this colour at the base of 

 the wing. Inhabits Bengal, Nepal, Arracan, and Central India (neigh- 

 bourhood of Chyebassa). 



3. Chi. ccesmarhynchos* Tickell, J. A. S. II, 579 ; Chi. aurifrons, 

 apud Jerdon. Similar to the last species, but having no trace of blue 

 on the centre of the throat, which is pure black, separating two well 

 defined moustachial streaks of brilliant smalt-blue ; and there is also 

 no yellow zone surrounding the black of the fore-neck. Female with 

 the black of the fore-neck less extended, and surrounded by pale 

 straw-yellowish ; the same moustachial streaks as in the male, but not 



* This name would appear, however, to be merely a misprint for gampsorhynchus 

 of Jardine and Selby. 



