Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 271 



Mr, Davison gives the soft parts in the species as follows : 

 — " Legs and feet green ; claws plumbeous ; upper mandible 

 dull black, lower mandible and edges of upper mandible 

 near nostril pale plumbeous ; orbital skin dark green, at 

 times pale green ; irides deep red." 



Immature male. Has the dusky malar stripe varied with 

 rufous and spotted with dull white, the white on the feathers 

 not presenting the barred appearance which distinguishes 

 the fully adult male bird. Not having seen a very young 

 male, I cannot say if it has the malar stripe rufous, as in the 

 female, which the admixture of the rufous colour on the 

 cheeks of the immature bird would suggest. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 cheeks and chin rufous. Total length 10' 5 inches, culmen 

 1*4, wing 5"3, tail 3*7, tarsus 0"95. 



Young female (July) . May be distinguished from the adult 

 female by having the striations on the white chin and throat 

 of a pale brownish dusky, and not deep black ; the top of the 

 head and the occiput dusky green; the ear-coverts pale 

 brown, with the slightest tinge of green ; the cheeks, sides of 

 the neck, and the chest paler rufous, and the underparts of 

 a duller green. 



The present bird has long been common in collections, but 

 no exact comparison of the Javan and Malaccan birds 

 appears to have been made. Reichenbach perceived the 

 differences ; but by the names he applied to the two species 

 he rather added to than cleared up the confusion which 

 existed. I have come to the conclusion that the name 

 mentale belongs only to the Javan form, and that the 

 Malaccan bird must be called C. squamicolle (Lesson). 

 The latter author, in his 'Traite d'Ornithologie/ p. 229, 

 bestowed the name of Pious squamicollis upon a bird from 

 an unknown locality ; and it appears reasonable to suppose 

 that his description was taken from a specimen in the Paris 

 Museum (the only one in the collection at that date, and 

 from an unknown locality). This specimen was received 

 in exchange from Temminck in 1 823 ; but it was apparently 

 not the Javan species, the true C. mentale, but probably 



