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tiires I kept for a very long while, feeding them on sugar and water, 
bread and milk, occasionally varying their diet with honey. The 
males sing in captivity, and soon become familiar and confiding 
in their dispositions." 
" This elegant species was procured near Seheria, in Borabhum, 
flitting about the low willow-bushes in the dried bed of a stream. It 
has no song, but a shrill chirp." — (Lieut. Tickell.) 
" Inhabits the sub-Himalaya region, Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, and 
the Tenasserim provinces." — (Blyth.) 
]0G7. ^THOPYGA VIGORS I, Sykes 8p. 
^ Cinnyris Vigorsii, Sj/kes, Froc, Zool. Soc. (1832), 
p. 98. 
^ ? Nectarinia Vigorsii, Goulds B. of Asia (1850), 
pi. . 
^ Cinnyris concolor, Si/Jces, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1832), 
p. 99. 
Vigors' Sun-bird, St/kes. Gould. 
A.h.c. ^ ?. Dukhun (types). Presented by Colonel 
Sykes. 
JEthopyga Vigorsi differs from miles in being somewhat larger 
and more robust, and has the tail shorter, this in the female being 
almost square. The male may always be distinguished from that 
sex of the latter species by the light yellow striaB which intersect the 
scarlet of the breast, and by the small crescent of brilliant metallic 
blue on the ear-coverts. 
"Inhabits the lofty trees of the dense woods of the Ghauts. 
LarvjB of fl-ies, a spider, ants, and minute insects found in the 
stomach." — (Col. Sykes.) 
1068. JETHOPYGA GOULDI^, Vigors Sp. 
Cinnyris GouldiaB, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831),^;. 44. 
Gould, Cent, of Himal. Birds, pi. 56. 
^thopyga Gouldise, CahaniSj Catal. B. 3fus. Heine, 
p. 103. 
Nectarinia Gouldise, Jardine, Nat. Lihr. Nec. pp. 238, 
269. Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XII. p. 974 ; 
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