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clear lemon-yellow on middle of belly; sides and lining of wing blue- 

 gray ; flanks and thighs dark olive-green, the latter streaked with light 

 lemon-yellow; under tail-coverts chestnut; back, rump, mantle, and 

 secondary-coverts dull gray-green, richer green on the coverts ; upper tail- 

 coverts like rump but with a faint chestnut wash; primaries, alula, 

 primary-coverts, and outer secondaries black; some of the primaries and 

 secondaries edged with yellow; greater coverts broadly margined with 

 pale yellow, forming a conspicuous band ; rectrices slate-gray above, each 

 with a black subterminal band and washed with green near the base; 

 rectrices blackish below with narrow slate-gray tips. Base of bill black, 

 tip pale blue; iris light yellow; legs and feet coral-pink. Salvador! 

 quotes the following iris colors from Davidson : "Irides with three rings, 

 the outer one rose-pink, the next prussian-blue, the innermost ultra- 

 marine-blue." Length, 280 ; wing, 147 ; tail, 92 ; culmen from base, 19 ; 

 tarsus, 23. 



Adult female. Nearly all green; somewhat similar to the male but 

 darker green above; the lavender wanting on head and neck, and orange 

 wanting on breast, these parts being dark green; under tail-coverts pale 

 yellow, more or less washed with cinnamon on inner webs. One female 

 from Mariveles, Bataan Province, measures: Length, 280; wing, 148; 

 tail, 93; culmen from base, 19; tarsus, 22. 



"Young male. Resembles the female, but with some trace of the 

 vinaceous purple color on the neck, and of the brown-orange on the 

 breast. 



"Young female. Has the rufescent color of the upper tail-coverts 

 scarcely visible, and the central tail-feathers more or less tinged with 

 green. 



"Some specimens have the forehead and throat more or less tinged 

 with greenish, but they are not confined to a particular locality. I have 

 seen in the Museum of Paris a variety entirely of a canary-yellow." 

 (Salvadori.) 



"Its nest is a mere platform of twigs, grass-stems, tendrils, and leaves, 

 measuring about 180 mm. in breadth. The eggs are nearly oval in form, 

 pure white in color, and measure 31 by 24." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus PHAPITRERON Bonaparte, 1854. 



Length, 230 to 280 mm.; sexes alike in color; colors nearly uniform 

 brown of various shades; a wide iridescent band on neck; primaries 

 neither scooped not cut ; rectrices graduated and rounded and with gray 

 tips ; under tail-coverts gray or dark buff. Birds of this genus are closely 

 related inter se, maculipectus alone showing a slight departure from the 

 type in its mottled breast. The species fall naturally into two groups 

 which might take the rank of subgenera were anything to be gained 



