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green with black bases, giving a mottled appearance ; under wing- 

 coverts white, washed with yellow ; axillaries white ; quills ashy 

 blackish below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5"1 inches, culmen O'G, wing 2-45, tail I'So, tarsus 0*75. 

 (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw Eamsa>i.) 



Adult female (South Gorge, Khandala, April 5, 1876; S. B. Fair- 

 hank). General colour above yellowish green, rather more yellow 

 on the head ; feathers of the back long and silky, the bases grey ; 

 tail green, narrowly edged with yellowish ; lesser wing-coverts 

 dusky green ; median wing-coverts didl white, forming a bar across 

 the wing ; greater coverts blackish, tipped with white, forming a 

 second wing-bar ; quills dusky blackish, narrowly edged with pale 

 yellow, inclining to white near the end of the quills, the innermost 

 secondaries more broadly edged with yellow ; lores, feathers round 

 the eye, sides of face, car-coverts, and under sitrface of body bright 

 yellow, the sides slightly washed with greenish ; under wing-coverts 

 white, tinged with yellow ; axillaries white ; quills ashy black below, 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-45, tail 2-05, tarsus 0"7. (Mus. li. G. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay.) 



Adult male in green plumage {iv^olYe miles east of Ahmednuggur, 

 Jan. 8, 1876 ; S. B. Fairba)tk). Similar to the old female, but distin- 

 guished at a glance by thcblack tail and much blacker wings; scapulars 

 whiter ; wing-bands very distinct and broad ; quills black, narrowly 

 edged with pale yellow, much broader on the secondaries, which are 

 white at the tips, the innermost margined white or yellowish white 

 on both outer and inner webs ; tail-feathers black, narrowly edged 

 with yellowish white, more evidentlj' on the outer tail-feather, which 

 is also somewhat more plainly tipped. Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-6, tail I'S, tarsus 0"75. (Mus.R. G. Wardlaw 

 Rumsay.) 



Young male (Khandala, April 17, 1876 ; S, B. Fairhanlc). Not 

 to be distinguished from the old female. Total length 5-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-45, tail 2-U5, tarsus 0'7. (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay.) 



The descriptions have been taken from a carefully collected series 

 in Capt. Wardlaw llamsay's cabinet, as they seemed to show the 

 changes of plumage more completely than those in the British 

 Museum, which have not the sexes or dates of capture sufficiently 

 well indicated. 



Olis. Captain Legge gives the soft parts in Ceylonese birds (true 

 yF. zcylonicd) as follows : — 



M(de. Iris grey, mottled with brown, occasionally hazel-brown ; 

 bill, upper mandible black, with a clearly defined blue etlge ; lower 

 mandible dusky blue, with a bluish margin ; legs and feet slate-blue, 

 claws black. 



Female. Iris olive-grey ; biU somewhat paler than in the male. 



Burmese birds, according to Dr. Armstrong, had tho " irides 

 light greyish white ; bill slaty blue, lighter at tip ; legs and feet 

 bluish grey." 



