266 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 



feathers of the bastard-wing, likewise the primary-coverts, 

 brownish black edged externally with olive ; primaries 

 brownish black, the outer webs of the innermost washed 

 with dull red, partially edged with olive, and having bar-like 

 spots of rufous, the inner webs clearly barred with rufous ; 

 outer webs of outer secondaries dull red margined with 

 golden olive ; inner webs brownish black barred with rufous ; 

 inner secondaries having the outer webs and tips of the inner 

 golden olive, the remaining portion of the inner webs 

 brownish black deeply notched with rufous (except the 

 innermost, these being only margined with rufous at the 

 base) ; shafts brownish black ; tail and tail-shafts black ; 

 nasal plumes olive ; forehead, crown, and elongated occipital 

 crest golden olive, slightly rufous on the forehead and outer 

 edge of the crown; nuchal crest bright golden yellow.j lores 

 and sides of the face and neck olive ; a broad yellow cheek - 

 stripe ; chin and throat olive-black, the former varied with 

 rufous ', from the fore neck to the under tail-coverts (in- 

 clusive) olive, richer in colour on the chest ; the outermost 

 under wing-coverts olive, the inner ones black, barred with 

 pale rufous ; axillaries olive : " irides reddish brown ; bill 

 very pale blue; legs and feet bluish green " (//. 0. Forbes). 

 Total length 11 "5 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 5*6, tail ■i*6, 

 tarsus 1"05; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*82, outer 

 posterior 0*8, inner anterior 0*6, inner posterior 0'38. 



Adult female. Resembles the adult male, but has a rufous 

 cheek-stripe. Total length ll'O inches, culmen 1*25, wing 

 5*4, tail •i"25, tarsus I'O. 



In the collection of Mr. Frank Nicholson I have seen a 

 specimen obtained by Mr. H« O. Forbes at Blalana, Sumatra, 

 upon the 29th of January, at an elevation of 3000 feet, " Sex ? " 

 upon label. This example has, in addition to the yellow 

 malar stripe, the chin and upper throat varied with yellow, 

 of the same colour as the cheek-stripe. It is apparently an 

 adult bird, and I think there can be no doubt that it is a 

 male. The descriptions are taken from a pair of birds 

 kindly lent to me by Major Wardlaw Ramsay. 



C. mystacale was first described by Count Salvaaori (Ann. 



