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forming a cap, narrowing on the forehead ; a hroad supraloral 

 streak of golden yellow, passing into chestnut above the eye and 

 extending above the ear-coverts ; lores black, as well as a line above 

 the ear-coverts : the latter as well as the sides of the face chestnut ; 

 eyelid golden yellow above and below ; sides of neck golden yellow ; 

 checks and under surface of body golden yellow, with a slight wash 

 of chestnut on the throat ; the centre of the throat, fore neck, and 

 breast broadly streaked with black, as also the sides of the body and 

 flanks ; thighs black, edged with white ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts bright yellow, with white bases ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 whitish along the inner web : " bill and feet black ; iris brown " 

 (A^iduhon). Total length -t'S inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-6, tail 1*9, 

 tarsus 0'65. 



Adult female in shimmer plumage. Different from the male, and 

 having no black cap or chestnut ear-coverts. General colour above 

 uniform olive, washed with ashy ; the rump bright yellow, but not 

 forming a distinct band as in the male ; upper tail-coverts ashy, 

 washed with olive ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts dark brown, narrowly edged with olive, whitish at 

 the ends, forming an indistinct double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts dull brown, obsoletely fringed with olive ; quills 

 dusky brown edged with olive, the inner secondaries externally 

 ashy, the margins to the primaries paler ; tail-coverts dusky, edged 

 with olive-yellow, but only the two outer feathers with an ovate 

 spot of white near the end of the inner web ; head ashy, washed 

 with bright yellow and slightly mottled with black bases to the 

 feathers ; a faintly indicated eyebrow of bright yellow, overshaded 

 with ashy ; lores ashy ; behind the eye a dusky spot ; eyelid 

 yellow ; ear-coverts dusky, washed with bright yellow ; cheeks, 

 throat, and breast bright yellow, streaked with black centres to the 

 feathers ; lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull white, 

 slightly tinged with yellow ; flanks ashy, washed with olive and 

 streaked with dusky blackish ; thighs ashy ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts duU white, slightly washed with yellow, with dusky 

 bases ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the inner web. 

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-45, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult male in winter. Much more ashy than in summer, the 

 black head and black mottling on the back overshaded with ashy ; 

 the bright-yellow rump-band very distinct ; wings and tail as iu 

 the summer plumage, but the white wing-patch not so distinct, as 

 the feathers are washed with olive-yellow ; eyebrow and sides of 

 face yellow, the ear-coverts washed with ashy olive, with a slight 

 tinge of chestnut below the eye ; sides of neck golden yeUow, washed 

 over with ashy ; under surface of body not so brilliant yellow as in 

 summer and less broadly streaked with black, the feathers having 

 an overlying shade of ashy ; under tail-coverts white, slightly washed 

 with yellow. 



The full ijlumage is apparently not acquired during the first year, 

 or at least not till late in the season, as a male shot on the 16th of 

 May has the black feathers of the crown still edged with olive- 



