280 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Cluysoplilegma. 



Adult female . Differs from the adult male iu having the 

 upper parts deeper green, and the cross markings less regular 

 and not so yellow; the red upon the wings rather duller; 

 the rump dull green with yellowish cross markings, and the 

 feathers slightly tipped with lemon-yellow ; forehead and 

 crown more dingy, the former minutely spotted with buff or 

 huffy white ; lores, space round the eye, and cheeks blackish 

 brown, spotted with buffy white ; from the chin to the breast 

 deeper rufous, the chin and throat being thickly spotted with 

 blackish brown and buffy white, the remainder having wavy 

 cross markings of blackish brown and a few spots of buffy 

 white, the sides of the neck having a few spots of red ; under- 

 parts lighter, the cross markings appearing darker : " legs 

 and feet pale dirty green, claws horny green ; lower mandible 

 bluish white, upper mandible horny black ; irides red ; eye- 

 lids dark grey" {W. Davison). Total length 10'63 inches, 

 culmen I'l, wing 4'8, tail 3"6, tarsus 0*87. 



Young female. The Hume Collection contains two young 

 females, one from Kossoom, May 23rd (J. Darling, Jun.), 

 the other from Nealys, near Malacca, October 14th {W. 

 Davison). Neither of these are so young as the young male 

 described, they are more rufous on the face, neck, and 

 chest, but may easily be distinguished from the young of the 

 opposite sex by the whitish spots on the forehead, lores, face, 

 chin, and throat, these spots being partially edged with 

 dusky. The specimen dated May 23rd has the underparts 

 very similar to the adult bird, whereas the one obtained 

 October l^tth has the under surface of the body resembling 

 that of the very young male, and is very probably a bird of a 

 second brood. 



The specific differences between this bird and C. miniatum, 

 from Java, have been already pointed out by Dr. Sclater in 

 the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society^ for 1863, p. 211, 

 and I think there can be no doubt that the bird having the 

 back and almost the entire nuchal crest red is confined to the 

 island of Java. Lord Tweeddale (Ibis, 1877, p. 289) states that 

 he possessed an example collected in East Java by Mr. Wallace, 

 and marked a male, which he could not separate from true 

 C. malaccense, and, further, that Sumatran examples collected 



