of the Genus Tlmiionax. 147 



with narrow and short white striations ; abdomen, sides of 

 the body, flanks, and thighs buify white or pale buff, the 

 thigh-feathers having a broad subterminal black band ; vent 

 and under tail-coverts black ; outer under wing-coverts black, 

 the inner ones bufFy white ; axillaries bufi^y white. Total 

 length 17"0 inches, culmen 2'3, wing 8'7, tail 6"3, tarsus 

 1*3 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 1*05, outer pos- 

 terior 0*95, inner anterior 0*78, inner posterior 0'52. 



Young male. Diflers from the fully adult male in having 

 the feathers of the forehead, crown, and chest more of a 

 scarlet, and the bases of those of the forehead and crown 

 dusky black ; the feathers of the malar patch dull crimson 

 at the tip and the base black ; a larger amount of white 

 behind the cheeks and ear- coverts and also upon the chin 

 and throat, the chin and upper throat being white, striped 

 with dusky black ; the white on the underparts having a 

 slight tinge of bnff"; the secondary quills having the basal 

 portion of the inner webs white for about an inch and a half 

 of their length. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 forehead and crown black, the occipital crest alone being 

 crimson. Total length 16'0 inches, culmen 2'1, wing 8' 75, 

 tail 6-2, tarsus 1-22. 



Mr. Davison gives the soft parts of this species as fol- 

 lows : — " Legs and feet pale plumbeous to leaden blue ; iris 

 creamy white, creamy yellow, clear yellow ; orbital skin 

 very dark plumbeous; bill black, lower mandible plumbe- 

 ous blue to dusky plumbeous. ^^ 



Specimens from various localities differ in size, those from 

 the Philip]3ines having the wing about an inch shorter than 

 examples from Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. In 

 the birds from Luzon which have come under my notice there 

 is a greater amount of white on the feathers of the chin and 

 throat, as well as behind the cheeks ; and the feathers of the 

 fore neck and chest have not the slightest trace of whitish 

 margins, such as are found in specimens from the above- 

 mentioned islands, and are particularly pronounced in an 

 example from the island of Negros, collected by Mr. Everett, 



