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individuals, which were generally very shy and difficult of 

 approach. It frequents the open forest land in company 

 with the Tropidorliijnchus avfjenticcps, and resorts to the 

 branches for its food, which consists of fruit of various kinds, 

 such as figs, &c. His specimens were procured by keeping 

 himself carefully concealed beneath one of its favourite feed- 

 ing trees and watching until an opportunity offered of getting 

 a shot. He once saw several nests which he had no doubt 

 belonged to this species ; nearly all of them were built among 

 the topmost branches of very large gum-trees, which he could 

 not induce the natives to attempt to climb ; a deserted nest Avas 

 however within reach, being placed on an overhanging branch 

 not more than twenty feet from the ground ; it measured 

 about a foot in diameter, and was composed of small sticks 

 lined with finer ones. 



As is the case with the other members of the genus, the 

 sexes offer a marked difference in colour. 



The male has the crown of the head and cheeks glossy 

 black ; orbits, and a narrow space leading to the nostrils' 

 naked, and of a light buffy yellow, or flesh- colour ; all the 

 upper surface, wing-coverts, outer webs of the secondaries, 

 and a patch on either side of the chest, olive-green ; chin, 

 chest, abdomen, and flanks beautiful yellow ; vent and under 

 tail-coverts white ; primaries and inner webs of secondaries 

 black, edged with grey ; tail black, the external web and the 

 apical half of the internal web of the outer feather on each 

 side white ; the apical half of the second feather on each side 

 white ; the next, or third, on each side with a large spot of 

 white at the tip; bill black; feet flesh-colour. 



The female is striated on the head with brown and vk^hitish ; 

 has the upper surface olive-brown ; the wing-feathers niarrovvly 

 edged with greenish grey ; the under surface white, with a 

 conspicuous stripe of brown down the centre of each feather ; 

 and the vent and under tail-coverts white, without striae. 



Total length 10^ inches ; bill 1-|- ; wing 5f ; tail 4 J ; tarsi |. 



