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above the base of the upper mandible, passing under the eye 

 and the ear-coverts ; sides of the face smoky green, varied 

 with dull greenish white ; malar stripe streaked intense 

 black and white ; sides of the neck and hind neck green ; 

 chin and throat smoky green ; fore neck and chest dull yel- 

 lowish green ; underparts, including under tail-coverts, yel- 

 lowish white, the feathers with an intermarginal line and 

 occasional shaft-streak of black or olive-black, and having a 

 scaly appearance ; under wing-coverts yellowish white, barred 

 with and having V-shaped markings of black; axillaries white, 

 tipped with yellow and barred with black : " irides, a circle 

 of dark pinkish red round the black pupil, surrounded by a 

 second ring of light pink ; upper mandible horn-coloured at 

 the base, the tip and the whole of the lower mandible being 

 of a brightish yellow" {R. C. Beavan). Total length 13'5 

 inches, culmen 1"85, wing 6*25, tail 4-65, tarsus ]*1; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0"8, outer posterior 0'72, 

 inner anterior 0"63, inner posterior 0"45. 



Young male. Upper parts dusky brown, edged with green ; 

 wing-coverts similar, the greater series barred with greyish 

 or dingy white ; base of the forehead black varied with grey ; 

 the feathers of the remainder of the forehead, crown, and 

 occiput tipped with scarlet (more orange on the occiput) on 

 a black ground ; the bases leaden grey ; feathers of the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts margined and tipped with pale chrome- 

 yellow, and having faint dusky V-shaped markings ; chin, 

 throat, and fore neck dingy bufFy white ; sides of the neck 

 ashy brown, the tips of the feathers greenish, and having a 

 subterminal blackish spot ; from the chest to the vent in- 

 clusive dull white, with a slight tinge of yellow, the chest 

 being more ashy yellow, and the whole of the feathers having 

 an intermarginal V-shaped blackish marking with a white 

 centre; under tail-coverts greyish white, with similar mark- 

 ings and white centre; under wing-coverts white, spotted 

 and varied with blackish. 



A young male in the Hume collection, from Simla, July 

 20th [A. 0. Hume), rather older than the one above described, 

 has the Avhole of the upper parts uniform green, or nearly so, 



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