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cap, though still showing some pin feathers, the anterior edge 

 being more or less irregular in outline. When first collected the 

 black feathers on the posterior portion of the crown patch of 

 this specimen showed beautifully the continuous development of 

 the feathers ; several of the new black feathers being tipped with 

 the pale nestling feathers, which also bore on their tips the long 

 smoky-black down. These black feathers of the crown and 

 throat are very dull in color, and are minutely tipped with 

 yellow on the throat and with green on the crown. The tips 

 of a few black feathers show behind the ears, between the hood 

 and throat patches, but do not meet either. The stiff' yellow 

 feathers between the eye and bill are decidedly tipped with black, 

 appearing much darker than in the same area in adult birds, 

 this being due to the crowding of the new feathers. Yellow 

 feathers have developed on the forehead but are obscured by the 

 nestling plumage ; the most advanced show black tips. Yellow 

 feathers have also appeared nearly encircling the eye, while the 

 posterior end of the supra-auricular region is also yellowish 

 and meets the yellow feathers around the ear-coverts, thus 

 giving the sides of the face an almost yellow appearance. The 

 lower back is completely covered with the green feathers of the 

 new plumage on which the tips of the nestling feathers remaining 

 on the neck show quite reddish. Tail 2.19 inches long. The 

 nestling wing-coverts have dropped out and new ones have not 

 yet appeared. 



No. 133227, male juv., same date as above, is still further 

 advanced : the entire back except the neck is covered with the 

 new plumage ; the yellow of the underparts occupies a larger 

 area and is almost connected across the chest with the breast 

 patch, the yellow of the underparts thus appearing somewhat as 

 an inverted U. The hood is better developed, the feathers being 

 nearly half grown, smoky-black in color, each bordered with a 

 narrow edge of green, the colored margin being distinctly discern- 

 ible. The throat patch, as shown in Fig. 3, has increased in 

 size and is connected with the hood by a partially developed 

 line of black surrounding the auriculars. Yellow feathers have 

 encircled the eye, the entire face has strengthened in color and 

 now presents the same pattern as in the adult male, except that 

 the center and anterior portion of the auriculars are still in the 



