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white ; primary-coverts browner^ and siioilarly spotted ; 

 quills dusky black, the base of the outer webs of primaries 

 aud the whole of the outer webs of secondaries margined 

 with green, outer webs of primaries obliquely barred with 

 buffy white, the inner webs notched or spotted with pure 

 white on the basal half; the outer webs of the secondaries 

 having indistinct spots showing through the green colour, 

 and an indication of pale green bars ; inner webs of secon- 

 daries spotted transversely with white, the innermost feathers 

 entirely green ; shafts of quills brown ; central pair of rec- 

 trices black, margined with green at the base and obliquely 

 barred with greyish ; the remaining feathers blackish brown, 

 barred more or less obliquely with a lighter shade of colour, 

 the barring on the outer large feather being clear pale brown ; 

 shafts dusky brown, with black tips ; upper nasal plumes and 

 base of forehead dusky blackish ; remainder of the forehead, 

 crown, occiput, and nape scarlet on a grey ground, the red 

 tapering to a point on the nape ; a black stripe in front of the 

 eye ; side of the face and a broad stripe over the eye ashy grey, 

 tinged with green ; lower nasal plumes and a stripe from 

 thence, passing across the face and under the ear-coverts, 

 greyish white ; malar stripe black ; hind neck yellowish 

 olive, some of the feathers tipped with yellow ; the side of 

 the neck paler and yellower than the hind neck, with a few 

 orange-red feathers on the side of the nape ; chin and throat 

 buffy white ; fore neck, chest, and breast ashy yellow, clearer 

 yellow on the abdomen, the latter as well as the thighs with 

 olive crescent-shaped markings, the breast having almost 

 obsolete similar markings ; under tail-coverts yellowish, with 

 broad crescent-shaped olive markings ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries yellowish white, with transverse olive markings : 

 *' irides white " [Trby). Total length 11 "3 inches, culmen 1*5, 

 wing6"05, tail 3*8, tarsus 1*12 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0*78, outer posterior 0*83, inner anterior 068, inner 

 posterior 0"38. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 forehead and crown slaty grey, washed with green, the feathers 

 having a black central stripe, the occiput aud nape only being 



