Stray Feathers. A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies June 1877

My measurements are not round the edge of the wing but straight from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary measured on the inner surface of the wing this latter being pressed flat on a table. [...] above: forehead crown and batik of the neck violet shaded steel blue ; sides " of the head black; upper back sides of the neck and greater portion of the scapulars "very dark red ; lower back crossed by a narrow pale yellow band ; lowest portion of " the rump upper tail-coverts and two centre tail-feathers (with the exception of the " ends of the latter) steel-blue very faintly shaded with [...] Beneath chin throat " and crop black with the sides of the chin and the throat violet shaded steeblue ; front " half of the chest pale yellow distinctly mottled with scarlet; remainder of the breast " abdomen and under taicoverts pale yellowish olive ; under surface of the wings dark " brown with the inner margin of the quills and the coverts white. [...] The tail of this species is more rufous than in that of any of the others ; in other respects the coloration of the upper parts is similar to that of the two species next to be described. [...] 8.—Certhia discolor Nobis.—Distinguished by ha.ving the entire under parts uniform dingy brown or very much sulied albescent (inclining in some to whitish on the abdominal region) and no ferruginous on the flanks but only on the lower tail-coverts ; whereas in the preceding species the under parts are pure white tinged with ferruginous on the sides of the breast and the flanks as well as