82 BRITISH BIRDS. 
forehead and rump bright yellowish green ; wing-coverts blackish brown, 
tipped and margined with olive-green. The whole of the underparts are 
golden yellow, shading into almost white on the under tail-coverts, and the 
flanks are striped with blackish brown. Bull ight brown ; legs, feet, and 
claws fleshy brown; irides hazel. The female is much duller than the 
male, and has much less golden yellow in the plumage; the crown is grey, 
streaked with blackish ; and the underparts are buffy white, yellower on the 
throat and breast. English examples have obscure grey margins to the 
yellow feathers, and the margins to the feathers of the back are brown 
instead of grey, which appears to be characteristic of autumn plumage, or 
that of birds of the year. I have not had an opportunity of comparing 
them with birds in autumn plumage from the islands, 
