214 FRIN&ILLID.E. 



Chrysomitris dybowskii, Tacz.J.f. O. 1876, p. 199 ; id. Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, i. p. 180 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, with slightly 

 indicated dusky streaks to the feathers ; rump brighter yellow, 

 shaded with dusky greenish, the dark shaft-stripes very distinct on 

 the upper part of the rump ; lesser wing-coverts dark yellow ; 

 median coverts rather brighter yellow ; greater coverts black, edged 

 aud tipped with yellow, brighter at the ends and forming a bar ; 

 bastard-wing blackish edged with yellow, whitish at the ends ; 

 primary-coverts dusky blackish, fringed with greenish yellow ; quills 

 blackish, the primaries margined with bright yellow, the inner ones 

 with a bright yellow base to the inner web ; secondaries yellow at 

 base and edged with yellow near the end of the outer web, the 

 innermost ones blackish, edged with pale yellow : upper tail-coverts 

 yellowish green ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with yellow, all but 

 the centre feathers yellow at the base ; crown of head black : lores 

 blackish ; a broad eyebrow of bright yellow, shaded posteriorly with 

 green ; eyelid, sides of face, and ear-coverts yellow, the latter shaded 

 with green above ; cheeks, throat, and breast bright yellow ; abdo- 

 men whitish ; sides of body and flanks dull yellowish mixed with 

 ashy and broadly streaked with black ; thighs ashy whitish ; under 

 tail-coverts white, washed with yellow, with blackish centres to the 

 feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow, the former 

 with dusky bases ; quills below dusky, yellow along the inner edge. 

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

 0-55. 



Some males, apparently very old birds, have the feathers at the 

 base of the bill and the chin black. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ashy brown, washed with yellow and streaked with blackish down 

 the centre of the feathers ; rump bright yellow, washed on the sides 

 with green and streaked with black ; wing-coverts as in the male ; 

 quills blackish, fringed with greenish yellow, but the yellow bases to 

 the quills, which are conspicuous in the male, reduced to a great 

 degree, and in the case of the secondaries hidden by the greater 

 coverts ; upper tail-coverts dull olive-yellowish ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with yellow, all but the centre feathers yellow at the 

 base ; crown of head like the back but more ashy, and with smaller 

 blackish centres, not very distinct ; lores and base of forehead hoary; 

 a narrow yellow eyebrow ; eyelid yellowish ; ear-coverts and cheeks 

 yellowish, shaded with dusky brown : under surface of body white, 

 tinged with yellow on the lower throat ; sides of body and flanks 

 more distinctly washed with yellow and rather broadly streaked 

 with black centres to the feathers ; thighs ashy whitish ; under 

 tail-coverts white, streaked with black centres to the feathers : under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow, the coverts with dusky 

 bases ; quills below dusky, ashy yellowish along the inner edge. 

 Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-7, tail 1-75, tarsus 

 0-55. 





