NOTES OX A COLLEOTIOX OF BlltDS FKOxM TöUÖlIIMA. 119 



loîvcr hrcdxl and tipper ahdomtn, wliilc u-'ilh a dight yelhmish or huffy 

 tinge, llie feathers Jiacing lite cxiretne huse durk-greij and (lie rent of huml 

 porlion sil/üj while, assuming (lie above -me iidoned liiige lonards (he exj)Oxrd 

 apiced porlion. The black feathers of the breast in close proxintitg to (hf 

 while area are margined at the lip with buify while. Lotrer cdidonunal 

 feathers black and also margined with buji'ij while. Thigh-feathers ivilh a 

 large black area, presenting the appearance of being likewise black and 

 margined with bully white. Tibial feathers with a brownisli-black marking, 

 leaving the lips bufl'y-while and ihe Ixisal parts wliitish. Shafts of quills 

 and of tail-feathers deep brownish-black. 



Adult Icinule. I/ikc the male in plumage, e.ccepl thai the head is 

 entirelij wanting in red. The feathers of the forehead, crvwn and occipital 

 crest, as also of the malar region black with greenish gloss, the bases of fea- 

 thers being dark grey. The greenish glass of the upper back less intense 

 them in Ihe male. On one (Xo. J 71^6) of the tiro female skins, ihe short 

 1st primarij is tipped with while, which, is not the case on the other 

 specimen; the six follow ing primaries have always while tips as m the 

 mede. 



Of the habit of thi^< s|iecic8, and of othei" points coiiceriiiuii" it, 

 Mes8r8. XaniiN'c and 'I'siicliida haM' kindly su})plicd nie with ijialei-ials 

 for the followin;Li' account. 



On }.larch 3rd, while passing through the deep forest of Tadera 

 (ahout 15 miles to south-west of îzuhara), (heir attention was called 

 to a strange piercing cry re[)eated a few^ times. Whence it emanated 

 they could n(jt tell, biit imagined it was something like the shriek of 

 some hawk's nestling. They waited for many minutes cx[)ecting to 

 hear it once again, hut in ^•ain, and as no sign of any auimal was 

 tliscernihie, they mo\'cd on, little thinking that they had just heard 

 the l(jng-sought 'Thriponax richardsi, as subsequent experience taught 



