INSESSORES. 89 



I have considered it advisable to give this bird a generic 

 appellation distinct from Pezoporus; ornithologists can adopt 

 it or not as they please. 



All the upper surface grass-green, each feather crossed by 

 irregular bands of black and greenish yellow ; feathers of the 

 crown and nape w^ith a streak of black down the centre ; 

 throat and breast yellowish green, passing into sulphur- 

 yellow on the abdomen ; spurious wings brown ; primaries 

 and secondaries brown, narrowly fringed with a greenish hue 

 on their external webs, with the exception of the first three ; 

 the primaries and secondaries have also an oblique mark of 

 yellow near their bases, which mark increases in breadth and 

 in depth of colour as the feathers approach the body ; two 

 centre tail-feathers dark brown, toothed on the edge of both 

 webs with greenish yellow ; the next on each side dark 

 brown, toothed on the other web only with brighter and 

 longer marks of yellow ; the remainder dark brown, crossed 

 by bands of yellow, which in some cases are continuous across 

 both webs, and in others alternate ; under tail-coverts sulphur- 

 yellow, crossed on their outer webs with narrow oblique and 

 irregular bands of blackish brown ; bill horn ; feet fieshy. 



Total length 1 inches ; bill ^ ; wing 5^ ; tail 5 ; tarsi f . 



Genus LATHAMUS, Lesson. 



The single species known of this form has been assigned to 

 a different genus by almost every writer on ornithology. 

 Vigors and Horsfield placing it in their genus Nanodes, 

 Wagler in his genus Euphema ; but Lesson, perceiving that it 

 did not belong to either of those forms, made it the type of 

 his genus Lathamus. 



Having had ample opportunities of observing the bird in a 

 state of nature, I concur in the propriety of separating it into 

 a distinct genus ; in its whole economy it is most closely allied 

 to the Trichi^losai, and in no degree related to the EupkeiiKB. 



