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back, some few of tbe secondaries exhibiting narrow yellowish tips, 

 and some of the primaries with a narrow edging of whitish on the 

 outer web ; tail black, tipped with yellow, this latter colour princi- 

 pally confined to the inner web and increasing in size towards the 

 outer feathers of the taU ; head and neck all round, as well as the 

 fore neck, black ; rest of under surface white, with a yellow tinge 

 on the chest near the black gorget ; all the breast and abdomen with 

 distinct mesial streaks of black ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; 

 thighs greyish black, with yellow tips to the feathers ; under wing- 

 coverts black, with distinct yellow edgings to the feathers near the 

 bend of the wing. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-35, 

 tail 3-1, tarsus 0-75. 



Obs. Remains of immaturity are seen in some specimens in the 

 shape of black edgings to the feathers of the back, the upper taU- 

 coverts also being centred with black. 



Adult female. Above dull olive-yellow, greener on the head; the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts much brighter yellow ; wing-coverts 

 dull olive-yellow like the back, the median coverts slightly, the 

 greater ones broadly edged with chestnut near the tips, these rufous 

 edgings faintly indicated on the primary-coverts and on the inner 

 secondaries ; quills greyish black, the primaries edged with grey, 

 inclining to white near the tip, the secondaries externally olive- 

 yellow, a little brighter than the back; tail olive-green, all the feathers 

 with a large spot of bright yellow at the tip of the inner web, in- 

 creasing in extent towards the outer feathers, most of which have 

 a more or less distinct subterminal shade of blackish ; round the 

 eye a ring of bright yellow feathers ; sides of face greyish brown, 

 washed with green ; rest of under surface of body duU white, purer 

 on the abdomen, all the feathers mesially streaked with black, these 

 streaks browner and less distinct on the throat and fore neck, and 

 narrowing considerably on the abdomen ; under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow ; thighs greyish black, with yellow tips to the feathers ; 

 under wing-covert.s greyish, washed with olive-yellow, especially 

 bright near the edge of the wing, the lower series greyish, with 

 whitish tips, the lower surface of the quills greyish brown, the inner 

 webs Hght yellow for the greater part of their extent. Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0-S5, wing 4*1, taU. 2-95, tarsus O-S. 

 Hab, Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



a. (^ ad. sk. Java, (Hors/ield). Secretaiyof State for India [P.], 



(Type of species.) 



b. c? ad. sk. Sumatra, 1861. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. (I S ? ad. sk. Malacca, 1854. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 c. [2Jad.sk. Malacca, 1854. Dr. Cantor [0.]. 



f,g. S 2 ad. sk. Malacca, 1854. W. Harvey, Esq. [P.l 



h. (S ad. sk. Sarawak, Borneo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



i,k. cj ad. sk. Borneo. 



I, m. (5 2 ad. sk. Borneo. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.J. 



H. (S ad. sk. Bintulu. A. Everett, Esq. [C.t. 



o. 2 ad. sk. Labuan. Hugh Low, Esq. [C. 



;;. S ad. st. Indian archipelago. F. Nightingale, Esq. 



q. 2 ad. St. Indian archipelago. F. Nightingale, Esq. 



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