1843.] Mr. Blytlis Report for December Meeting, 1842. 975 



the sides and hind-part of the neck, the back, scapularies, and smaller 

 wing-coverts, deep crimson, as in N. Goalpariensis ; crown, ear- 

 coverts, and throat, rich glossy violet, or purple, according to the 

 light ; a brilliant shoulder-tuft of the same ; and the upper tail-coverts, 

 lengthened middle pair of tail-feathers, and outer margins of the other 

 tail-feathers towards their base, also similar; rest of the tail dusky, 

 the three outermost feathers with albescent tips, as is likewise the case 

 in N. Nipalensis, and with the next species ; yellow band over the 

 rump as usual ; wings beyond the smaller coverts dusky, margined 

 with olive-green ; the breast and belly bright yellow, with sometimes 

 a faint tinge of flame-colour about the middle ; bill blackish, and legs 

 dark brown. Length five inches and a half, of which the bill to fore- 

 head measures nine-sixteenths of an inch, and the long tail-feathers 

 three inches ; wing from bend two inches and one-eighth ; and tarse half 

 an inch. The only female I have seen was deficient in the tail, and 

 was everywhere dull olive-green, paler on the under-parts, deeper and 

 slightly aureous on the back, with a somewhat reddish cast on the 

 margins of the primaries and secondaries. This beautiful species is rare 

 at Darjeeling, where it is much sought after by collectors, who have cur- 

 rently styled it the " Beauty of the Hills," a name by which it will be 

 recognised by many. 



6. N. Horsfieldi ; Cin. Horsjieldi, Nobis, mentioned in J. A. S. 

 XI, 107. Upper-parts very similar to those of N. Nipalensis, only 

 without the red, a slight trace of which, however, appears on the lower 

 part of the sides of the neck ; the scale-like nuchal feathers, also, 

 are not so broadly glossed as in N. Nipalensis, and have more of a 

 purplish shine ; the under-parts, too, differ only in having merely the 

 slightest trace of flame-colour, as in some specimens of N. Gouldii, 

 and which as in that species may often be wanting altogether : the 

 whole back, scapularies, and margins of the wing-feathers, are golden 

 olive-green, and the yellow on the rump (as in N. Nipalensis J is very 

 broad and conspicuous ; the ear-coverts are glossed with purple, and 

 the lores and sides of the neck are unglossed black: bill dusky, and 

 legs brown. Length five inches and a half, the bill to forehead mea- 

 suring three-quarters of an inch, and the long middle tail-feathers two 

 inches and a half; wing from bend two inches and one-eighth; and 

 tarse exceeding half an inch. Female unknown. The only specimen 



