66 Bic^lD^. 



by a moustachial line of slatj' grey, skirting the rami of the lower 

 jaw ; throat and under surface of body bright yellow, paler towards 

 the abdomen ; on the fore neck and chest a central patch of scarlet- 

 vermilion ; sides of upper breast slaty blue ; sides of body rather 

 greener, and washed with slaty blue ; under taU-coverts white ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quiUs dusky below, white 

 along the inner web : " bill black, slaty beneath ; legs dark leaden ; 

 iris reddish brown " ( Wardlaw Ramsay). Total length 3'5 inches, 

 culmen 0'45, wing 2"1, tail 1*2, tarsus 0*55. 



Adult female. General colour above dull olive-greenish, clearer 

 olive on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, quills, and tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, washed externally with a little brighter 

 yellowish olive than the back, the primaries externally edged with 

 greenish grey, as well as the bastard-wing and primary-coverts ; 

 head and sides of face olive-greenish, with a small patch of 

 dull orange in the centre of the crown, the feathers obscured 

 with olive tips ; lores and eyelid ashy whitish ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of face like the crown, with a small cheek-stripe of greyish 

 white, followed by a distinct malar stripe of dull ashy ; throat pale 

 yellow, whiter towards the chin ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 yellow, with a tinge of orange on the chest ; sides of body and flanks 

 more olive, mixed with grey where the bases show through ; thighs 

 and under tail-coverts whitish, the latter slightly washed with 

 yellow ; under wing- coverts and axillaries white ; quills brown 

 below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 3 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2, taU 0-95, tarsus 0'55. 



Younej male. At first like the adultfemale, but afterwards gaining 

 the full plumage by a direct moult. 



Very young birds appear to have scarcely any indication of the 

 patch on the crown, which is consequently almost obsolete. 



Hah. Malacca ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 



c. c? ; <^- 2 ad. sk. Malacca (Cawifo?-). India Museum. 



e,f,g. c? juv. ; h,i.2 Malacca (Cawior). India Museum. 



juv. sk. 



k. (S ad. sk. Penang (Cantor). India Museum. 



I, m. S ad. sk. Malacca. A.R.Wallace, Esq.[C.]. 



n, o. cJ ? ad. sk. Malacca ( Wallace). Gould Collection. 



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



q. (S ad. sk. Padang, Sumatra (M«s. Gould Collection. 



Luffd.). 



r. (S ad. sk, Borneo. Gould Collection. 



3. Prionochilus xanthopygius. 



Prionochilus xanthopygius, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torin. iii. p. 416, 

 cum fig. (1868) ; Waldmi, Ibis, 1872, p. 379 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 2: Snhad. The. Born. p. 162 (1874); Sharpe, Ibis,1877, p. 17; 

 td. Ibis, 1»79, p. 261 ; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 795. 



