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nasal plumes brown; forehead^ crown, and occipital crest 

 carmine-red, the bases of the feathers being bufly brown on 

 the sinciput and greyer on the occiput ; nuchal crest yellow, 

 washed with red; hind neck like the back; lores brown, 

 spotted with red ; sides of the face and neck brownish bulF, 

 the feathers of the face tipped with pale red, those on the 

 side of the neck faintly spotted with huffy white at the tip, 

 and having an almost obsolete central spot of brown, the 

 feathers on the lower side of the neck barred with brown 

 and the greater part having a pink tinge ; chin and throat 

 buff, with a few paler spots and some almost obsolete spots 

 of brown ; fore neck and chest buff, whiter upon the under 

 surface of the body, and the whole crossed by zigzag markings 

 of blackish brown ; under tail-coverts dusky brown, spotted 

 and barred with dull buffy white ; under wing-coverts olive- 

 dusky, spotted and barred with white. Total length 9*0 inches, 

 culmen 1'2, wing 5*2, tail 3-15, tarsus I'O; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-83, outer posterior 0'8, inner anterior 

 0*58, inner posterior 0'35. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 forehead, lores, face, the whole of the neck and the chest 

 covered with minute rounded spots of blackish brown and 

 buffy white. Total length 9*0 inches, culmen ].-07, wing 

 5-0, tail 3-1, tarsus 0*92. 



Dr. Sclater (P.Z.S. 1863, p. 211) has pointed out the 

 differences betw^een the present species and C. malaccense, 

 and blames Malherbe for having wrongly named the bird 

 Chloropicus miniatus, which he represents in his Monograph, 

 plate Ixxvi. figs. 1, 2. I cannot entirely agree with Dr. 

 Sclater ; and I am of opinion that the male bird figured by 

 Malherbe is true Chrysophlegma miniatum, and not C. malac- 

 cense. The red back shows this to be the case ; and although 

 in C. miniatum the nuchal crest is always more or less red, still 

 I do not remember to have ever seen a single specimen in 

 which there was not a small amount of yellow upon some of 

 the feathers. The majority, however, of the nuchal feathers 

 are red, the remainder being yellow washed with red, gene- 

 rally at the tips, and I have seen a specimen in which some 



