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Adult male. Olive-green, yellower on the face, throat, and breast ; 

 crown ochreous buff; upper mantle with a slight greyish tinge ; 

 back olive-green with scarcely a tinge of maroon ; middle of the 

 abdomen yellowish white ; feathers of the flanks green, with broad 

 yellowish-white edges on both webs ; under tail-coverts yellowish 

 white, centred with olive-green, the longer ones washed with pale 

 buff ; shoulders or lesser wing-coverts maroon, extending faintly in 

 a broken semicircle across the back ; median upper wing-coverts 

 olive-green ; quills black, secondaries and greater wing-coverts with 

 narrow yellow margins ; tertials olive-green ; wings underneath 

 lead-colour ; tail above uniform olive-green, below black, with a 

 greyish narrow band at the tip : " bill, basal two thirds cobalt-blue, 

 apical pale, with a tinge of yellowish ; bare skin round the eye 

 bluish grey ; iris comprising a bluish-grey ring round pupil, then a 

 narrow black ring, then a pearl-grey ring, and lastly a broad black 

 ring ; legs madder-pink, with pale yellowish soles and blackish-brown 

 claws " (Sivinhoe). Total length 12 - 5 inches, wing 7"7, tail 5, bill 

 0-7, tarsus l'l. 



Female. Olive-green, with no ochreous-buff colour on the upper 

 part of the head, and no maroon colour on the shoulders or smaller 

 upper wing-coverts. 



Bab. Formosa, in the mountains. 



a, b. S 2 ad. sk. Formosa, Aug., Oct. (R. Seebohm Coll. (Types 



Sivinhoe) . of species. ) 



c. d ad. sk. Formosa, Feb. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



d, e. d J ad. sk. Formosa, Feb., April (R. Tweeddale Coll. 



Swinhoe). 



f. $ ad. sk. Formosa, Feb. (R. Sivin- Hume Coll. 



hoe). 



g. 2 ad. sk. Formosa, Feb. (R. Sicin- Seebohm Coll. 



hoe). 



8. Sphenocercus permagnus. 



Treron sieboldi, Seeb. (nee Temm.), Ibis, 1887, p. 179 (Loo-choo 



Mauds). 

 Trerou permagna, Stejneg. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. 1886, p. 637 



(1887); id.'Zeitschr. f. yes. Orn. iv. p. 170 (1887); id. Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. x. p. 418 (1887); Seeb. B. Jap. Emp. p. 164 (1890). 

 Treron formosse, pt., Seeb. Ibis, 1888, p. '2'-'>5 (Loo-choo Islands). 



Adult male. Similar to S. formosce, but larger, and with no 

 ochreous-buff tinge on the crown, and no maroon tinge whatever on 

 the back ; under tail-coverts yellowish white on the edges, without 

 the least trace of buff. Wing from 8'2 to 7'7 inches. (Seebohm 

 Coll.) 



Female. The female is very much like that of S. formosce, only 

 larger and of darker olive-green colour. 



Hab. Loo-choo Islands. 



a - [ 2 ] a d- sk. Loo-choo Islands. H. Pryer [C.]. 



b. 2 a d- sk. Okinaawa Shima, Loo-choo Islands, Seebohm Coll. 



Feb. {Hoist). 



