Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... The female, according to Capt. Shelley, is similar to the female of Je. dabryi. 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. Gould'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. .ETH0PYGA CARA. THE TENASSERIM YELLOW-BACKED SUN-BIRD. .ffithopyga miles (Hodgs.), Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 541; Beavan, iWs,1869, p.419; Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 32 (partim); Bl. $ Wald. B. Burm. p. 141. JEthopyga cara, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 473 (footnote); Hume Dav. S. F. vi. p. 179; Shelley, Mon. Ned. pp. xxiii, 63, pi. 21; Hume, S. F. yiii. p. 89; Bingham, S. F. be. 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 oliveyellow; tail blackish, the edges..
