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feathers having an intermarginal line and, occasionally, a 

 narrow shaft-streak of deep-olive ; chest strongly washed with 

 yellow ; tibial plumes pale brown ; under tail-coverts white, 

 with a subterminal V-shaped brown marking, and lower 

 down either a broad shaft-streak or a narrower V-shaped 

 brown marking ; under wing-coverts white, washed with 

 sulphur-yellow, and having dusky barring and V-shaped 

 markings of deep olive ; axillaries white, tipped with yellow 

 and having V-shaped dusky brown markings : " in Decemlier, 

 bill plumbeous dusky, the basal three fourths of the lower 

 mandible yellowish-green horny ; irides carmine-red ; feet 

 dingy plumbeous''^ {J. Scully). Total length 11 inches, cul- 

 men 1*35_, wing 4*9, tail 3*3, tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 077, outer posterior 0*68, inner anterior 

 0*55, inner posterior 0"-l. 



Young male. Differs from the adult male in being of a 

 slightly darker shade of green above, and in having the red 

 on the forehead, crown, and occiput more of an orange- 

 scarlet, the occipital feathers having a patch or spot of black 

 between the red tip and the grey base ; the outer edge of 

 the forehead and crown being black, and forming a con- 

 spicuous stripe ; nape black, a few of the feathers assuming 

 orange or scarlet tips ; the ear-coverts darker, and the cheeks 

 striped with dusky black ; under surface of the body slightly 

 duller in colour, the green being confined almost entirely to 

 the throat and chest. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the fore- 

 head, crown, and occiput black, the feathers of the forehead 

 and crovv^n edged with ashy brown, and having a striped 

 appearance ; the upper parts greener ; rump and margins of 

 the upper tail-coverts paler chrome-yellow; the stripes on 

 the cheeks more dusky, and the chin and throat more buffy 

 brown ; the dark intermarginal lines on the feathers of the 

 underparts fainter and the shaft-streaks broader and more 

 constant : " iris dark red ; legs dusky blue ; upper mandible 

 almost black, lower dusky horny ; June 15th '' [S. B. Fair- 

 bank). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1*27, wing 4-9, tail 

 3'3, tarsus 1. 



