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breast and abdomen ; foreneck and chest as under 

 surface, but suffused with ashy-grey ; sides of body 

 and flanks greyish-brown suffused with olive ; beak, 

 brownish : legs and feet, brown. Total length 5^ in., 

 of which the tail measures 2^ in. 



Adult female : Darker olive-green above than the 

 male; her double wing-bars are ochraceous, and her 

 under surface is more olive - yellow, the plumage 

 generally is of a duller hue than that of the male. 



" A young male which died in the Zoological Gardens had 

 " the buff tips to the wing-coverts as in the old female, and 

 " base of the forehead white." (B. M. C, Vol. XII.) 



Habitat: Brazil. 



6. 6". simplex. 



Adult male : The upper surface, including the 

 top of the head, is palish olive-brown, suffused with 

 ashy-grey ; median and greater coverts, dusky edged 

 with olive and tipped with white, forming a double 

 wing-bar; the bastard wing, primary-coverts and 

 quills, similar but without white tips ; there is a 

 small patch of white at the base of the primaries, 

 formed by the whitish tips of the secondaries and the 

 bases of the inner primaries ; tail-feathers, brown 

 edged with olive; lores and eye region, whitish ; ear- 

 coverts, greyish-brown ; cheeks and under-surface, 

 whitish-yellow, strongly suffused with greyish-brown 

 on the foreneck and sides of body ; beak, brownish ; 

 lower mandible much paler than the upper ; legs and 

 feet, leaden-brown. Total length 4! in., tail i|^ in. 



According to Prof. Nation the sexes are alike. 



According to Dr. Taczanowski the young differ 

 from the adults in having a tinge of brownish on the 



