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black, but where the webs are white the shafts are also the 

 same ; forehead reddish orange, the tips of the feathers being 

 of this colour, the middle portion black, and the bases grey ; 

 near the upper mandible the feathers are edged with yellowish 

 olive ; crown olive ; lores yellow ; a stripe over and under the 

 eye, and extending down the sides of the face and neck, 

 white; the stripe which is over the eye and runs down the 

 side of the neck extends to the hind neck, and forms a partial 

 collar of white and black, the inner webs of the feathers 

 being of the latter colour; ear-coverts and the space be- 

 tween the white stripes blackish brown ; moustachial stripe 

 dusky black, the feathers tipped with yellowish white ; chin 

 and throat whitish, the feathers having blackish tips ; chest, 

 breast, and entire under surface of the body, including flanks 

 and thighs, pale yellow, the chest, breast, and upper part of 

 the abdomen being spotted with intense black, the flanks and 

 thighs barred with the same; under tail-coverts yellowish, 

 barred with dusky black ; under surface of the tail repeat- 

 ing the colours of the upper surface, but the black and white 

 not so strongly pronounced ; shafts as upon the upper sur- 

 face ; under wing-coverts of the primaries dusky, of the 

 secondaries white, with pale yellowish and dusky bars ; edge 

 of the bastard wing yellow; axillaries white; under surface 

 of the wing dusky, the margins of the inner webs pale brown 

 near the tip, and white at the base ; shafts of some of the 

 outermost primaries brownish white, the remainder white, 

 dusky towards the tip ; " bill plumbeous; irides brown; legs 

 plumbeous " (Jerc(o;z) ; " bill plumbeous black ; irides brown ; 

 feet darkish plumbeous" (/. Scully). 



Total length 3-3 inches, culmen "48, wing 2*2, tail 1-2, 

 tarsus 'o, toes (without claw), outer anterior '4, outer pos- 

 terior '4, inner anterior '27, inner posterior '2. 



Younger male. The upper parts are less rich in colour than 

 iu the adult ; the crown is more ashy brown than in the adult 

 female, but it has a tinge of olive ; the tips of the feathers of 

 the forehead are more orange than in the older bird ; the ear- 

 coverts and sides of the neck, between the two white stripes, 

 are browner ; there is more white upon the throat, and the 



