22G FEINGILLIDJE. 



surface of body ochreous buff, with tbe black of the throat and the 

 red of the breast distinguishable underneath. 



Hob. Venez.uela and Trinidad. Introduced into Cuba and Porto 

 Eico. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Venezuela. Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Carupano, Venezuela, Feb. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



1867 (A. Goering). 



c. S jun. sk. Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. C. Dyson [C.]. 



e. 3 ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. Trinidad. Purchased. 

 g. <$ ad. st. Cuba. Purchased. 



22. Chrysomitris thibetana. (Plate III.) 



Chrysomitris thibetana, Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 107 ; Brooks, Ibis, 

 1872, p. 469; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 416; id. Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 108. 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive-green, the head like 

 the back, the feathers of the nape and hind neck subtcrminally 

 marked with yellow, forming a patch ; lower back and rump dark 

 greenish yellow washed with olive-green ; wing-coverts dark greenish 

 yellow ; the median and greater coverts with blackish bases, the 

 latter fringed at the tip with pale yellow ; bastard-wing blackish ; 

 primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged with greenish yellow, 

 brio-liter on the primaries, the secondaries fringed with whitish at 

 the tips ; upper tail-coverts dark greenish yellow with dusky centres; 

 tail-feathers black, edged with yellow externally and with white at 

 the tip and along the inner web ; lores, feathers round eye, and a 

 streak above the ear-coverts yellow, as well as the sides of the face 

 generally ; ear-coverts dusky, washed with greenish yellow ; cheeks 

 yellow, with a dusky stripe on the hinder parts ; throat and under 

 surface of body yellow ; the abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks 

 washed with greenish yellow ; thighs dark ashy ; under tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; under wing-coverts dull greenish yellow ; axillaries 

 paler yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total 

 length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-75, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-5. 



Some of the males have slight indications of dusky streaks on the 

 back, and have the flanks very plainly streaked. In these birds 

 the yellow colour is a little duller than in the one described. They 

 are probably males of the previous year. 



Adult female (type of species). Different from the male. General 

 colour above dull greenish, mottled with yellow edges to the feathers, 

 which have also dusky centres ; the head like the back, but less dis- 

 tinctly streaked ; rump greenish yellow, streaked with dusky centres; 

 lesser wing-coverts greenish yellow ; median and greater coverts 

 dusky blackish, broadly tipped with greenish yellow, forming a 

 double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 fringed with greenish yellow, broader towards the end of the secon- 

 daries ; tail-feathers as in the male ; lores and facial markings as 

 in the male, but more dingy, and the yellow not so bright ; throat 





