250 



n. KUKom : 



All the males before me have the greater part of crown bright metallic 

 green. In one of them, this green of crown is tinged with violet. In eight 

 of them, the entire hind part of crown is metallic violet. In all the males 

 the hind part of head and the entire nape are brownish, either uniformi}' or 

 with reddish or yellowish olive margin to the feathers, the nape being 

 crimson in none. The exposed parts of closed tail arc metallic green 

 suffused with violet, except in two males, in which the tail may be said to 

 the metallic violet nearly without the green hue. Chin, throat, chest and 

 fore-breast crimson ; hind breast ashy grey ; abdomen and flanks pale yel- 

 lowish olive ; under tail-cov e rts yellowish white with dusky centre to the 

 feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy white, some of both tinged 

 with very pale yellow. 



The female examples before me have the abdomen and sides of body 

 clear pale yellow and under wing-coverts as well as axillaries almost white 

 tinged with very pale yellow. The edge of wing yellow and the lateral 

 tail feathers blackish, tipped very obscurely with white. 



There are known four allied forms of Ai. sellerine, viz. : 



( i ). - E. selicriœ seheriœ (Tick.), Himalayan region. 



(ii) . ,, ,, andcrsoni Oates, Bhâmo, Burmah. 



(iii) . ,, ,, cara Hume, Tenasser'm. 



(iv) . ,, ,, labecu a (McCll.), Assam. 



The more important differential characters of the males of these forms 

 may be tabulated as follows : 





Colour 



of 

 Crown. 



Colour 



of 

 Nape. 



Colour of visib e 

 parts of closed 

 tail-feahers. 



Colour 

 of 



abdomen. 



V 



s 



"3 

 O 



Wing. 



Tail. 



3 



(A 



H 



Dirterence of 

 length b 't- 

 ween th 

 middle and 

 the next 

 tail-feather. 





(■) 



Met illic 

 gr-en. 



Brown- 

 ish 

 green. 



Metallic green, 

 outer feathers 

 suffused with 

 violet 



Slaty 

 greenish 

 yellow 



Olive 

 yellow. 



20 

 m n. 



56 

 mm. 



68.5 

 mm. 



14 

 mm. 



25.5 mm. 



Gadow 



& 

 O.ites 



(ii) 



Metallic 

 Lilac. 



■ 



Brown. 



M tallic lilac. 



18 

 mm. 



51 

 mm. 



61 

 mm. 









