PAOHYGLOSSA. 38/", 



quills brown, edged with lighter blue ; a narrow white moustachial 

 Btreak down the cheeks; point of the chin white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pure white ; the whole lower plumage deep 

 yellow, paler on the vent and under tail-coverts and washed with 

 green on the sides of the body ; a large patch of crimson on the 

 breast. 



Female. Upper plumage green ; wings and tail dark brown edged 

 with green; a pale red patch on the crown; sides of the head 

 green tinged with grey ; an ashy-grey moustachial streak ; lower 

 plumage dull ashy green, suffused with yellow on the breast and 

 abdomen. 



The young resemble the female but have no coronal patch. 



Legs, feet, claws, and lower mandible dark plumbeous ,- upper 

 mandible black ; iris dark brown (Davison) • iris red-brown (Ward- 

 Itnr Iiamsaj/). 



Length 3-8 ; tail 1-2; wing 2-2; tarsus -55; bill from gape -45. 



Distribution. Procured hitherto within our limits only at Ban- 

 kasun at the extreme southern point of Tenasserim. The rano-e oF 

 this bird extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



924. Prionochilus maculatus. The White-throated Flower-pecker. 



Pardalotus inaculatus, Temm. PI. Col. m, pi. 600, f. 3 (1836). 

 Prionochilus maculatus (Temm.), Horsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 752 ; Wahl 



Bis, 1872, p. 379 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 199 ; Hume, Cat. no! 



2 10 quint. ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 340 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 69. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage and lesser wino-- 

 coverts green ; a patch of fiery red on the crown ; greater coverts, 

 wings, and tail brown, edged with green ; sides of the head ashy 

 green ; lores and moustachial streak greenish white ; a dull green 

 streak below this moustachial streak ; the space between these green 

 streaks pale yellow ; breast and sides of the neck bright yellow, 

 streaked with brown ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts* bright 

 yellow ; sides of the body dusky yellow ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale yellow. 



Female. Differs from the male merely in having the coronal patch 

 orange-yellow. 



_ In the males, legs and feet very dark plumbeous, in the females 

 dirty smalt-blue ; upper mandible and the lower to the angle of 

 gonvs black; the rest of the bill plumbeous in males, smalt- 

 blue in females ; iris dull red (Hume Sf Davison). 



Length 3*7 ; tail 1-1 ; wing 2-1 : tarsus -5 ; bill from gape -5. 



Distribution. Tenasserim from Mergui down to Malawiin : 

 extending down to the Malay peninsula. 



Genus PACHYGLOSSA, Hodgs., 1843. 



The genus Pachyglossa resembles Prionochilus in many respects, 

 but the wing is extremely long with a much shorter first primary, 

 VOL. II. 2 o 



