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olive, the feathers of the rump and the upper tail-coverts margined 

 with chrome-yellow; b.st.i-cl-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown spotted with white on both webs, the outer webs of 

 the secondaries washed with yellowish olive: shafts brownish 

 black : tail blackish brown, the feathers having indistinct spots of 

 greenish or brownish grey at the base, the penultimate feather 

 barred to he tip; shafts brown with black tips; nasal plumes 

 brownish b ack ; top of the head and the occiput scarlet, face smoky 

 grey striped with dusky, the lores, a stripe under the ear-coverts and 

 one above the eye white; malar region white, striped with dusky 

 o hve and yellowish ; side of the neck and the hind neck yellowish 

 olive, the former striped with pale yellow ; from the chin to the vent 

 (inclusive) yellowish white, the fore neck and chest strongly washed 

 with yellow, the chin and throat striped, the remainder of the 

 leathers having an mtermarginal line and an occasional shaft-stripe 

 ot olive or brown; under tail-coverts white with a broad shafV 

 stripe and intermarginal line of brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillanes yellowish white, with V-shaped markings of dusky brown : 

 bin plumbeous dusky, the basal three fourths of the lower 

 mandible yellowish green horny ; irides carmine-red ; feet dingv 

 plumbeous" (ScnU^f). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 

 4- J, tail d-c5, tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws)— outer anterior 077 

 outCT posterior 0-68, inner anterior 0-55, inner posterior 0-4 



rouvc/ male. Eesembles the adult male but is darker above and 

 has f be red on the head of an orange-scarlet; a stripe of black 

 Dorderiug the forehead and crown ; ear-coverts darker, and the 

 malar region striped with dusky black; under surface of the body 

 less green. •' 



Achat female. Differs from the adult male in having the forehead 

 crown, and occiput black, the feathers of the forehead and crown 

 edged with ashy brown and having a striped appearance. Total 

 length 11 inches, culmen 1-27, wing 4-9, tail 3-3, tarsus 1. 

 ^«6. India generally, Ceylon, Assam, Cachar, and Burmah, and 

 also in biam (judging by a young bird obtained at Pitchaburree by 

 M. lierre and which I take to belong to this species), and Cochin 

 China (Jiilhen). ^' 



«. d ad. sk. Nillgalla Park, Ceylon, Jan. 13, Tweeddale Coll. 



1867. 

 I, c. 2 ad. sk. Seegool, Nilghms, Feb. 19, Hume Coll. 



1881. 

 f?. c? ad. sk. Kullar, Coonoor Ghat, Sept. 22, Tweeddale Coll 



1876 (B. G. W. R.). 

 e,f. c? ad. sk. Kullar, Coonoor Ghat, Aug. 19, Hume Coll. 



1867. 

 ir, /*, ?. c? ad ; Kotagherry, Kilghiris, Hume Coll. 



k. 5 ad. sk. March, Nov., Dec. {Miss 



C'ockhurn). 



'ltL:'k '''''''''■ Tweeddale Coll. 



",o.c?2ad.sk. Madras. T. C. Jerdoii, Esq. 



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