976 Mr Blyttis Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



observed was contained in a collection partly from the Himalaya and 

 partly Malayan.* 



7. N. saturata ; Cin. saturata, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1837, p. 273: 

 C. Assamensis, McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167: N. 

 Hodgsonis, Jardine, Nat. Libr. Size of N. Gouldii> but having a 

 considerably larger bill, and predominating deep black plumage, which 

 colour extends over the throat, breast, and fore-part of the belly, the lores, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of the neck, and on the wings and rump, upon 

 which last there appears to be more or less trace of the ordinary 

 yellow band in different specimens, but never much ; scapularies and 

 interscapularies dark sanguineous; crown, occiput, and back of the 

 neck, brilliant steel-blue approaching to violet, and a streak of the 

 same down each side of the front of the neck, commencing at the 

 corner of the lower mandible and gradually widening; upper tail- 

 coverts, lengthened middle tail-feathers, and margin of the next pair 

 of tail-feathers towards the base, glossy steel-blue, like the head ; 

 flanks, hind-part of the belly, and lower tail-coverts, dull olive-green ; 

 rest of the tail black, as is also the bill, and feet brown ; the greater 

 wing-feathers are margined with dark olive. Length six inches, of which 

 the bill to forehead rather exceeds three-quarters of an inch, and the 

 tapering middle tail-feathers measure three inches and a quarter ; wing 

 from bend an inch and one-eighth, and tarse posteriorly half an inch. 

 Extent, according to Mr. Hodgson, seven inches, and weight a quarter 

 of an ounce. This species inhabits Nepal, the vicinity of Darjeeling, 

 and Assam. 



Upon the various allied long- tailed Nectarinice inhabiting the Indian 

 Archipelago, I have no information to contribute. Of those with even 

 or but slightly rounded tails, there appear to be only two species in 

 Bengal, which are pretty generally distributed throughout India proper. 



N. Zeylonica ; Certhia Zeylonica, Linnaeus : Cin. sola, apud 

 Jerdon, and of my former reports: C. lepida (?J, apud Sykes.f 

 Very abundant in the neighbourhood of Calcutta throughout the year, 



* The donor of that collection has just informed me that the specimen in question 

 formed part of a consignment which he received from the hills, i. e. the Himalaya. 

 Can it be a variety only of N. Nipalensis ? 



f C lepida of Latham is evidently the Anthreptes Javanica of recent authors ; 

 while C. lepida of Sparrman is regarded in Griffith's work as the female of N. sperata. 



