MRS. GOULD^S SUN-BIRD. 
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female is smaller; length 3*5 inches^ tail 1*3; wing 1*75^ tarsus '55^ bill 
from gape '7. 
The description of the male is taken from a bird procured by Dr. An- 
derson in the Kachyin hills east of Bhamo ; that of the female from a 
bird shot in Karennee by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay. 
This species and the next are very closely allied. The male of JE. gouldi<R 
may_, however, be recognized by its yellow breast_, but the females of the 
two species are very similar and perhaps inseparable. 
Dabry^s Scarlet Sun-bird was obtained by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in 
Karennee at an elevation of 4000 feet_, and Mr. Davison also procured it on 
the higher portions of Mooleyit in Tenasserim. 
It has been observed in China in the provinces of Sechuen and Moupin, 
and Dr. Anderson got it on the hills east of Bhamo on the borders of China. 
Mr. Davison remarks of this species : — It was frequenting a number 
of large flowering forest-trees at that time covered with masses of red bell- 
like blossoms. Its habits were precisely those of all t\\Q jEthopyg(]e. Even 
at Mooleyit it was decidedly rare, and I myself only succeeded in shooting 
four males and one female ; but I saw perhaps a dozen more. They were 
very difficult to procure^ because they did not permanently hang about the 
trees on whose nectar they were feeding, but suddenly emerging from the 
surrounding deep forest, in which it was quite impossible to see or find 
them, would appear about one of the blossoming trees, hover about it for a 
few seconds and then dart away." 
299. ^THOPYGA GOULDI^. 
MRS. GOULD^S SUN-BIRD. 
Cinnyris gouldiae, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 44. .ffilthopyga gouldiae, Jerd. B. 
Ind. i. p. 364 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii. pt. ii. p. 23 ; Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 35 ; 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 141 ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. pp. xxii, 41, pi. 14 j Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 89. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown, chin, throat and the posterior part 
of the ear-coverts coppery red or burnished purple according to the light ; 
lores blackish ; a line of feathers over the lores, cheeks, sides of the head 
and neck, lesser wing-coverts, back and scapulars crimson ; rump yellow ; 
upper tail-coverts rich purple or violet ; basal three quarters of the centre 
tail-feathers bright purple, terminal quarter brown; the other rectrices 
brown, tinged with purple on the outer web and tipped with whitish ; 
greater coverts and quills dark brown, edged with yellowish brown ; lower 
plumage bright yellow ; the breast more or less streaked with crimson ; 
the sides of the breast crimson, with a patch of bright purple ; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. 
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