U TIMEI,I1D.T5. 



Crinin:er sci-icca, Blijlh, Ibis, ISOo p. 48 {ex Miiller in Mas. Liigd.). 



Criniger viiidis, Gnti/, IIand-1. B. i. p. 27o, no. 40o0. 



Criniger criniger, Grnii, Ihind-l. B. i. p. 275, no. 4052. 



Brachypus criniger, Waldcn, Ihii, 1872, p. ;578. 



Triehole.«>tes minutus, 8(dmd. Ucc. Born. p. 205, tav. v. fig. 1 ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 14 ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 257. 

 Tricholestes criniger, Tioeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 306; Ilione ^- Davison, 



Str. F. 1878, p.';J04 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 02, 98. 



Adult male. General colour above dull yellowish olive, with 

 remarkable long black hairs on the hind neck and mantle ; wing- 



Outline of Tricholestes criniger, to show long bristles on tlie back. 



coverts brown, washed with the same colour as the back ; quills 

 brown, externally olive-brown, contrasting with the rest of the 

 ■wing ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers fawn-brown, or slightly 

 rufous-brown, marked with yellowish olive on their margins, the 

 outer tail-feathers tipped with pale yellow on the inner web ; crown 

 of head light brown, contrasting with the back ; lores, feathers above 

 and below the eye, and sides of face light yellow ; under surface of 

 body light yellow, whitish on the throat, the breast somewhat 

 mottled with green, the feathers being edged with this colour, the 

 flanks washed with olive ; under wing-coverts light yellow, the 

 greater series whitish ; under surface of quills brown, fulvescent 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill pale leaden ; legs and feet 

 light yeUow-brown ; iris pale sepia-brown " (yl. Everett) : " the 

 legs and feet are pale bluish, or pinkish brown, or salmon fleshy ; 

 claws pale plumbeous blue ; lower mandible and edge of upper 

 mandilde pale plumbeoiis ; ridge of culmen and tip of upper man- 

 dible black ; ridge of upper mandible dark plumbeous, sometimes a 

 horny brown ; irides varying from a pale umber or snuffy brown to 

 dark brown " {Hume). Total length 5'S inches, culmen 0'G5, wing 

 ii-95, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5"7 

 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-7-J, tail 2-n, tarsus 0-G5. 



