11. CRINIGER. 71 



c". Fore neck and chest bright yellow, 

 washed slightly with olive on the 

 sides. 

 c'. Tail-feathers not tipped with yellow pJueoeejyhalus, p. 74. 

 c?'. Tail-feathers tipped with yellow .... diardi, p. 76. 

 b". Head light brown, not in very strong con- 

 trast •nith the back. 

 d". Without any grey shade on the fore 

 neck or breast, which is bright yeUow 

 like the abdomen, 

 c*. Head pale fulvous brown ; no white 

 onforehead; no white eyebrow above 



the ears Jluveolus, p. 77. 



f*. Head pale fulvous brown, washed 

 with ashy ; lores and base of fore- 

 head whitish ; ear-coverts white, 

 washed with grey ; above the ear- 

 coverts a white eyebrow griseiceps, p. 77. 



e'". Washed with grey on the fore neck 

 and breast. 

 g^. Ear-coverts brown like the head; tail 



rufous-brown gularis, p. 78. 



h^. Ear-coverts and a line above the ear- 

 coverts ashy grey, contrasting with 

 the head ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 washed externally with olive-brown f rater, p. 79. 

 b'. Under tail-coverts fawn-coloiu- or butty I gutturalis, p. 80. 



brown, or inclining to chestnut i pallid us, p. 81. 



b. Throat yellow. ( nificrissus, p. 81. 



c. Tail uniform or nearly so, the inner webs of 

 the feathers not yellow, or broadly edged or 

 tipped with yellow. 

 c". Jireast ashy grey; back olive-greenish, 



mixed with ashy gi'ey harbafus, p. 82. 



d". Breast yellow or olive-yellow. 

 f". Lores dusky, or dull whitish, or olive. 

 i*. Upper tail-coverts and tail rufous, 

 contrasting with the back ; throat 

 and centre of body bright yellow, the if.- i 09 

 sides green ; wing less than 3 inches < , ' • '• ' iTIt 

 k\ Upper tail-coverts and tail brown or ' ''""'""««' P- »-^- 

 reddish brown; throat and centre 

 of the body pale yellow, the flanks 

 olive-greenish ; wing ii''2o inches. 

 a'. Throat ashy whitish, washed with 

 olive-yellow ; ear-covertg dusky 

 brown, streaked with minute yel- 

 low shaft-lines pahwanensis, p. 83. 



Crixiger tephrogents. 

 Trichophorus tephrogenys, Jard. 8( Selbg, III. Om. pi. 127. 

 Criniger tephrogenys, Gra?/, Gen. B. i. p. 236. 



This species still remains a puzzle to oruithologisf^s. It was originally de- 

 scribed from ■' India," and afterwards was thought to be African. Nothing but 

 an esamination of the type will settle its identity. See my note to Criniger 

 verreaiixi. 



