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SYNOPSIS. 
Hah. Continental India, Col. Sykes. Goulparah, Lath. North- 
ern India, Hoyle. Nipaul, Hodg. 
N. lath amt, Jardine, 1842. 
N. Lalhami, Jard. Nat. Lib. yol. xxx v i . p. 233, 1842. 
(J Above , forehead to the line of the eyes, steel-blue ; back 
and sides of the neck, cheeks, back, and less, w.-covers, brown- 
ish red ; lower back and rump dark gamboge-yellow, protected 
on the sides by lengthened plumes of oil-green ; up. t. -co- 
vers steel-blue ; tail black, feathers edged with steel-blue, gra- 
duated ; w. umber-brown, edges of the feathers paler. — Below, 
chin, fore part of the neck, and breast, scarlet-red ; maxillary 
stripes reach to the sides of the neck ; narrow feathers of two 
colours, black and violet, forming a line of each, the black inte- 
rior ; belly, vent, and und. t.-covers, dull greyish oil-green ; bill, 
tarsi, and feet, umber-brown, mandible slightly paler. — Length, 
4 in. 2-10ths; of bill to forehead, 5*-10ths; of w. to long, 
quill, 2 in. 
Hah. Continental India. — Note. Differs from N. Goalpari- 
ensis in the general tint of colouring, blup front and up. t.-co- 
vers ; t. regularly graduating? 
N. eximi a, Horsfield, 18 — . 
N. eximia , Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 181. — 
Souimanga de Kidd, N. Kuhlii, Temm. PI. Col. 378, 
figs. 1, 2. 
£ Above, coronal patch extending to the occiput, olive with 
metallic lustre ; back and sides of the neck, back, and w.-covers, 
yellowish oil-green ; rump pale gamboge-yellow ; w. and t. pale 
umber-brow, latter graduated. — Below. Throat, fore part of the 
neck, and up. breast, brownsih carmine, divided in the centre 
by an angular stripe of violet ; belly dark umber-brown, shading 
to greenish white on the vent and und. t.-covers ; axillary tufts 
very ample, white. — Length, 3 in. ; of bill to forehead, 8-10ths ; 
of w. to long, quill, 2 in. 2-10ths. 
Hob. Java, Hors/., Temm. 
N. nipalensis, Hodgson, 18 — . 
Cinnyris Nipalensis, Hodg. Spec, in Coll, of Zool. Soo. 
