13. PEIOJTOCHILUS. 67 



Adult male. General colour above slaty blue ; least ■wing-coverts 

 like tbe back ; remainder of wing-coverts, bastard- wing, primarj-- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown edged with slaty grey, lighter and 

 more ashy on the margin of the primaries ; rump bright yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts slaty blue ; tail-feathers blacldsh, indistinctly 

 barred with dusky and edged with slaty blue ; crown of head slaty 

 blue, as also the sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of neck ; 

 in the centre of the crown a longitudinal patch of bright scarlet ; 

 entire under surface of body bright yellow, a little ashy on the 

 chin and deeper on the throat ; the fore neck orange, deepening into 

 scarlet ; thighs and under tail-coverts white with a slight yellowish 

 tinge ; flanks washed with olive ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web : 

 " bill black ; legs dark grey ; iris warm brown " (A. Everett). Total 

 length 3'5 inches, culmen 0"4:, wing 2, tail 0'95, tarsus 0"5. 



Adult female. Olive-green above, with a band of brighter yellow 

 across the rumj) : head dull slaty blue, with a patch of dull orange 

 on the crown ; least wing-coverts dull slaty blue, the remainder 

 dusky, edged with olive-green ; tail-feathers dusky brown, washed 

 externally with olive-green ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks 

 dull slaty blue ; chin whitish ; remainder of under surface of body 

 j'eUow, deeper on the centre of the fore neck ; sides of upper breast 

 washed with ashy ; flanks and sides of body olive-greenish ; thighs 

 and under tail-coverts white, the latter slightly tinged with yellow ; 

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

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 3 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 1"85, tail 0'95, tarsus 0*55. 



The young male is apparently grey above, duller than the adult, 

 with remains of olive on the back and on the edges of the wing- 

 coverts and secondaries ; rump bright yellow ; upper tail-coverts 

 olive ; under surface as in the old female. ' 



Hab. Borneo. 



a. c? ad. ; 6. (S Sarawak. Harold Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



juv. sk. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Tagora, Sarawak, May Alfi-ed Everett, Esq. [C.l. 



1875. 



d. S ad. sk. Bintulu, W. Borneo. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



e. (J ad. sk. Brmiei. Governor Ussher [C.]. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Lumbidan (H. Loiv). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Prionochilus thoracicus. 



Pardalotus thoracicus, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. GOO. figs. 1, 2 (1836). 



Prionochilus thoracicus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 29 ; Blyth, J. A. S. 

 Beng. xiv. p. 559 (1815) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 229(1849); 

 Bj}. Consp. i. p. 335 (1850) ; Sab-ad. Atti E. Accad. Torin. iii. 

 p. 417 (1868) ; id. Ucc. Born. p. 163 (1874) ; Shmye, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 17 ; Hume ^- Davis. Sir. F. 1878, p. 198 ; Sharpe, 3is, 1879, 

 p. 261 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, pp. 56, 90; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 795. 



p2 



