848 Lord Walden on the late Colonel Tickell’s 
miles, came from. Fortunately, an examination of the figure 
of the male, together with Colonel Tickell’s later deseription, 
leaves no doubt that the bird he had before him was the 
Tenasserim and Tonghoo form of Athopyga miles, recently 
named by Mr. Hume (“if really new”) Athopyga cara (Str. 
F. ii. p. 478, note). It is the . miles (Hodgs.), apud 
Walden (P. Z.8. 1866, p. 541), ex Moulmein and the Salween 
river, obtained by Captain Beavan, and also the 4. miles, 
apud Blyth (B. Burma, no. 491). In‘ The Ibis’ (1870, p. 82) 
I drew attention to some of the characters which seemed to dis- 
tinguish the Moulmein form of 4. miles ; but, rather than risk 
adding a useless synonym, | refrained from naming it. Lately 
Captain Shelley kindly informed me that he was of opinion that 
my Burman example belonged to a species distinct from 4. 
miles; and a careful comparison I have since made convinces 
me that Captain Shelley is justified in thinking that the Bur- 
man form should be specifically separated. It is a species 
intermediate between 44. miles and AL. eupogon, as will be 
seen by the following key :— 


AY, miles. Cap, rectrices, and upper tail-coverts dark metallic green ; 
violet moustachial stripe simple; base of lower throat-feathers black. 
44. cara. Cap and upper tail-coverts green ; rectrices dark steel-blue, 
tinted with violet; base of lower throat-feathers white; violet mous- 
tachial stripe simple. 
AL. eupogon. Cap, upper tail-coverts, and rectrices metallic violet; 
base of lower throat-feathers white; violet moustachial stripe internally 
margined with black. 

N. seherie roust still therefore be looked for in Borabhoom ; 
but as Colonel Tickell identifies it with 4. miles, and as his 
original description of the Borabhoom bird agrees to the 
letter with 4. miles, I have little doubt that N. seherie= 
44. miles, in which case Colonel Tickell’s title will have pre- 
cedence. 
The remaining Himalayan species of Aithopyge are all 
beautifully figured. But Anthothreptus malaccensis, 3 2, 
‘locality not known,” is figured under the erroneous title of 
N. zeylonica, and A. flammawillaris 8, ex Rangoon, under 
the incorrect name of N. jugularis. Nectarophila hasseltii, 
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