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WHITE-THROATED BRISTLE-NECK. 



Tricophorus gularis^ SWAINS. 



Above olive ; beneath, in the middle of the body, yellow ; 

 crown, blackish brown ; ears, grey ; chin and throat, pure 

 white. 



THE pure white on the chin and throat of this 

 hitherto unrecorded species distinguishes it, at first 

 sight, from the two preceding. Its size is inter- 

 mediate, between that of strigilatus and olwaceus, 

 being less than the former and larger than the 

 latter, and in all three the feathers on the throat 

 are equally developed*. 



The colouring has a general resemblance to that 

 of the two species already described, and yet there 

 are slight although distinctive variations. The 

 upper part of the head is dark sepia brown, which 

 assumes a greyish tinge on the ear-feathers, the 

 shafts of which are paler; the chin, and halfway 

 down the throat, is pure white; the breast and 

 middle of the body clear but pale yellow, and the 

 sides and flanks are of the same olive-green as the 



. * It is quite clear that Professor Temminck had not exa- 

 mined the other species he alludes to, for he states that this 

 character is peculiar alone to his T. barbatus, whereas it is 

 general in all the three species. 



