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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The female, according to Capt. Shelley, is similar to the female of 
dahryi. I have not been able to examine a specimen. 
Bill black ; legs brown ; irides brown. {Jerdon.) 
Length 6 inches, tail 3'2_, wing 2*2, tarsus '55, bill from gape '7. 
Mrs. Gonld^s Sun-bird is stated by Mr. Blyth to have occurred in 
Arrakan. 
It is found in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, Tipperah and Chittagong 
and along the whole range of the Himalayas as far as the Sutlej river, 
migrating from a higher to a lower elevation in winter. In summer it has 
been found at an elevation of as much as 10,000 feet near Chini. 
In habits this species does not appear to differ in any important respect 
from the next. Its nest has not yet been found. 
300. ^THOPYGA CARA. 
THE TENASSERIM YELLOW-BACKED SUN-BIRD. 
^thopyga miles (Hodgs.), Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 541 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 419 ; 
Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 32 (partim) ; M. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 141. .ffithopyga 
cara, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 473 (footnote) ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 179 j Shelley, 
Mon. Nect. pp. xxiii, 63, pi. 21 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 89 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 170; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 197. 
Description. — Male. Forehead and crown violet-green ; lores brown ; 
nape, hind neck, back, scapulars, sides of the head and neck, chin, throat, 
breast, lesser and median wing-coverts deep crimson ; rump yellow ; upper 
tail-coverts metallic green, shaded with violet ; tail black, edged with 
metallic violet ; two narrow streaks, one on either side the throat, metallic 
violet ; remainder of lower surface ashy green ; greater coverts and quills 
brown, edged with olive-green. 
The female has the upper plumage olive-green ; the centres of the 
feathers of the crown brown ; coverts and quills brown, edged with olive- 
yellow ; tail blackish, the edges olive-yellow and the tips whitish ; lower 
plumage and sides of the head dull olive-green. 
Legs and feet dark chocolate-brown ; upper mandible black ; lower 
mandible pale reddish brown; iris dark brown; mouth pale salmon-colour. 
Length 5 inches, tail 2*1, wing 2*2, tarsus '5, bill from gape '75. The 
female is smaller : length 4*3, tail 1-5, wing 2. 
siparaja, from the Malay peninsula, is a closely allied species, the 
male differing from the male of cara principally in having black 
margins to the inner webs of the feathers of the moustachial streaks, these 
margins forming well-defined inner streaks. seherice, from the Hima- 
layas, differs chiefly in having the crown, upper tail-coverts and tail glossed 
