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black edged with ashy groy, whitish at tips : bastard-wing black, 

 with a narrow fringe of white externally ; primary-coverts and 

 quills black, externally edged with ashy groy, the secondaries fringed 

 with white at the tips ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts black ; 

 two centre tail-feathers black, edged with hoary grey ; all the re- 

 maining taU-feathors black, edged witli hoary grey near the base, 

 and having a broad band of white across the centre of the tail, 

 formed by a large patch in the middle of the inner web ; head and 

 nape ashy grey ; a narrow frontal band, lores, sides of face, anterior 

 and posterior edge of eyelid, ear-coverts, and sides of neck black, 

 uniting with the black of the mantle ; upper and lower edge of 

 eyelid and a broad streak above the ear-coverts white ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body bright yellow, the centre of the lower throat 

 black ; the fore neck and chest, as well as the sides of the breast and 

 flanks, very broadly streaked with black ; lower abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white ; thighs white with ashy bases ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white, with a very faint tinge of yellow ; quills 

 dusky black below, ashy white along the inner web : " bill black ; 

 feet dusky, the toes yellow beneath ; iris brownish black " {Audu- 

 hon). Total length 4*5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*4, tail 1*95, 

 tarsus 0*75. 



Adult female in breeding-plumac/e. Slightly different from the 

 male and wanting the uniform black back. General colour above 

 olive-yellow, mottled with black centres to the feathers ; the rump 

 brighter yellow, slightly mottled with black ; the upper tail-coverts 

 black, margined with ashy grey, slightly washed with yellow ; lesser 

 wing-coverts ashy grey, mottled with blackish bases ; median and 

 greater series black, externally edged with ashy grey and tipped 

 with white, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky brown, edged with ashy ; quills dusky brown, edged 

 with hoary grey ; tail-feathers blackish, with hoary-grey margins, 

 all but the centre feathers with a central mark of white above the 

 middle of the inner web ; crown of head and hind neck pale slaty 

 grey, the extreme base of the forehead blackish ; lores hoary grey, 

 mottled with black bases to the feathers ; over the eye a narrow 

 line of duU white, widening above the ear-coverts ; upper and under 

 edge of eyelid white, as also a spot below the eye ; anterior and 

 posterior edge (if eyelid, as well as the car-coverts, black ; sides of 

 neck pale slat}' grey ; cheeks and under surface of body yellow, the 

 fore neck, breast, and flanks broadly centred with black ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts white ; thighs white with dusky bases ; axil- 

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

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 

 0-45, wing 2-3, tail 2, tarsus 0-7. 



A female collected by Dr. E. Coues on the 14th of May, and now 

 in the Salvin-and-Godman collection, differs from the one described, 

 which was also shot in the spring, in having the back black, edged 

 with olive-yellow, instead of being olive-yellow with black centres 

 to the feathers. This causes the specimen in question to resemble 

 the male rather closely ; and in fact, excepting that the colours are 



