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and breast, dull greenish-yellow ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 pale yellow, the abdomen more or less tinged with dark chrome- 

 yellow. Length 3-f inches ; wing 1-| inch ; tail 1^ inch ; bill to 

 forehead \ inch. 



Obtained plentifully at Pinang and Malacca. Also inhabits 

 Borneo, Sumatra, Tenasserim, and Arracan. 



189. Chalcoparia phcenicotis. 



Nectarinia 'phcenicotis, Temm. PI. Col. 108. f. 1 <3 . 388 ; f . 2 $ 

 (182 ). 



Anthreptes phcenicotis, Blyth, J. A. S. BeDg. xii. p. 979 (1843) ; 

 xiv. p. 557. 



Nectarinia cingalensis, Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 99. 



Chalcoparia cingalensis, Cabanis, Catal. B. Mus. Heine, p. 103. 



? Motacilla cingalensis, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 964 (Brown's 111. pi. 32). 



Male. Upper-parts glossy bronzed-green, including the crown 

 and wing-coverts ; upper tail coverts glossy-green, without the 

 bronzing ; rest of the wings and tail dusky, the latter margined 

 exteriorly with shining-green, and the secondaries and tertiaries 

 with faint purple ; throat, fore-neck, and breast, light-ferruginous ; 

 the rest of the under-parts bright yellow ; ear-coverts amethystine, 

 passing into ruby-red on the sides of the neck, and separated from 

 the hue of the throat by a stripe of glossy purple ; bill dull black ; 

 legs greenish. 



Female. Upper-parts glossless olive-green, tinged with grey ; 

 throat and breast as in male, but paler ; under-parts dull greenish- 

 yellow ; wings and tail margined with aureous-green. The young 

 resemble the female, except in the more downy texture of their 

 feathers, and the chestnut colour of the throat and breast is reduced 

 to a slight tinge. 



Male, female, and young from Malacca. 



Inhabits the Burmese and Malay countries. 



190. Prionochilus percussus. 



Pipra percussa, Temminck, PI. Col. 394. f. 2. 

 Prionochilus percussus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 29. 

 Dicceum ignicapillum, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 

 Nalow, Malays (Eyton). 



Adult male. Upper parts dull lavender-blue, the lower parts 

 bright yellow, passing to whitish on the lower tail-coverts ; a large 

 igneous-red spot on the vertex, and another along the centre of the 

 breast ; a white streak from the side of lower mandible, divided from 

 the yellow of the throat by another of lavender-blue. Primaries 

 narrowly margined with pale lavender-blue, secondaries with olive- 

 green, and the tertiaries with dull lavender-blue. Bill black above, 

 more or less whitish beneath, legs lead-coloured. 



Young male. Upper-parts as in adult, but intermixed throughout 

 with olive-green, igneous spot on vertex smaller and less bright ; 



