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Description. — Type, adult male, No. 181430, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mata 

 Siri, Java Sea, December 10, 1907; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Forshead 

 pale olive gray, the anterior portion palest; crown greenish gray, 

 between gnaphalium green and hathi gray; hind neck vetiver green; 

 upper back and scapulars darker, between vetiver green and andover 

 green; lower back storm gray, slightly washed with the green color of 

 the interscapular region; rump green like the upper back, but ante- 

 riorly shading insensibly into the gray of the lower back, and poste- 

 riorly into the dull mignonette green of the longest upper tail-coverts ; 

 broad tips of middle pair of rectrices between light yeU jv/ish olive and 

 mignonette green, the remaining exposed portion of the same color 

 but somewhat darker, and the basal concealed part deep gull gray, 

 more or less washed with the same green; remaining rectrices dusky 

 neutral gray, basaUy deep gull gray on the outer vanes, light neutral 

 gray on the inner, and terminally, for some 23 mm., pale neutral gray, 

 the two pairs next the middle pair washed with the green of the mid- 

 dle feathers, particularly on the outer webs, the outer rectrices also 

 ver}^ slightly and narrowly tinged with the same on the outer mar- 

 gins of their gray tips; wings slate color, but the outer webs of ter- 

 tials and most of the lesser wing-coverts (excepting only those along 

 the bend of the wing) together with a few of the inner median coverts, 

 between andover green and vetiver green like the scapulars; narrow 

 edgings on the outer webs of the inner median coverts and some of the 

 inner greater coverts, lemon yeUow; and similar but much broader 

 edgings on the two innermost greater coverts and on the outermost 

 tertial and innermost secondary, lemon chrome; lores pale greenish 

 olive gray; supercihary region, a narrow orbital ring, and the anterior 

 malar region, greenish gray like the crown; remaining parts of the 

 sides of the head, together with the sides of the neck, vetiver green, 

 rather brighter on the subauricular region; anterior part of cliin 

 between yellowish glaucous and seafoam yellow; posterior portion 

 of chin and medial uppermost part of throat between citron green and 

 water green; middle of rest of throat lime green; these colors of chin 

 and throat pass insensibly into each other and into those of sides of 

 head and neck; a broad (27 mm.) band on jugulum yellow ocher, 

 shading laterally to buckthorn brown; breast light lime green; sides of 

 body and upper abdomen between tea green and water green; flanks 

 and lower abdomen between slate olive and sage green; shorter lower 

 tail-coverts of the same green color, but mixed with feathers of cart- 

 ridge buff and pinkish buff, and some of the green feathers broadly 

 tipped with the same buff; rest of lower tail-coverts Hay's brown; 

 thighs partly dull green like the lower abdomen, partly cartridge 

 buff; lining of wing partly slate gray, partly dark guU gray. 

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