734 BULLETIN 50, unttp:d states national museltm. 



MANACUS AURANTIACUS (Salvin). 

 SALVIN'S MAN AKIN. 



Similar to M. viteUinus, but collar across hindneck much broader 

 (involving upper back) and, together with throat, etc., intense orange 

 instead of orange-yellow; under parts of body yellow (tinged with 

 olive laterally) instead of olive-green; tail olive, instead of black. 

 Adult female more yellowish olive-green, becoming decidedly yellow 

 on abdomen. 



Adult male. — Pileum, lores, and band across middle of back uni- 

 form deep black; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain 

 olive-green (the first darker, the two latter lighter and more yellow- 

 ish) ; tail greenish olive, more dusky terminally; lesser wing-coverts 

 yellowish orange; middle and greater coverts black; secondaries 

 black, their basal half (more or less) dusky olive; primaries dusky, 

 the innermost edged with olive basally; broad band across hindneck, 

 sides of neck, auricular, suborbital, and malar regions, chin, throat, and 

 chest, intense orange (cadmium orange) , the feathers yellownsh white 

 basally; upper back with feathers orange-yellow terminally, dusky 

 grayish basally, with a yellow bar between; under parts of body and 

 under tail-coverts yellow (gamboge, lemon, or chrome), the sides and 

 flanks tinged with olive, especially the latter ; axillars and under A\ang- 

 coverts pale yellow, the margin of wing dusky; inner webs of remiges 

 grayish brown, passing into dull yellomsh white on edges; maxilla 

 blackish, mandible more grayish or horn colored; legs and feet pale 

 brownish yellow or buffy (orange in life) ; length (skins), 95-104 (97) ; 

 wing, 45-49 (46.9); tail, 27-30.5 (29.2); exposed culmen, 9.5-11 

 (10.8); tarsus, 19.5-20.5 (20); middle toe, 11.5-12.5 (11.9).^ 



Adult female. — Above, including sides of head and neck, plain 

 "golden" olive-green, darker on pileum, lighter and more j^ellowish 

 on lower rump and upper tail-coverts ; chin and throat lighter j^ellow- 

 ish olive-green, deepening into darker yellowish olive-green on 

 chest; rest of imder parts wax yellow medially, passing into light 

 yellowish olive-green on flanks; bill, etc., as in adult male; length 

 '(skins), 93-105 (98) ; wing, 49-51 (49.7); tail, 28-32.5 (30.4); exposed 

 culmen, 10-11.5 (10.7); tarsus, 18-19 (18.8); middle toe, 11-11.5 

 (ll-l)-^ 



« Thirteen specimens. 



b Nine specimens. 



