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the front to the occiput is crimson, but the feathers, 

 -which are black, are only tipt with this colour : 

 the sides of the head, ears, chin, and part of the 

 throat, are fulvous-white or cream-colour, thickly 

 covered with small transverse blackish spots ; these 

 spots begin to assume the form of bands on the 

 lower neck and breast, and then cross all the re- 

 maining under plumage upon a whitish ground 

 tinged with olive, the breadth of each band being 

 equal to the space between them : the whole of the 

 upper plumage is olive-green, brighter and more 

 yellow on the back : the quills internally are brown : 

 the primaries have about five small whitish spots, 

 almost obsolete, on their outer webs ; but the rest 

 of the quills have none on their outer surface : the 

 tail is brownish-black with no external spots, but 

 some of the feathers have a few, almost obsolete, at 

 the base of their inner webs: inner wing-covers 

 cream-colour with few or no spots : hinder toe 

 scarcely shorter than the fore toe: the wings are 

 short. 



Total length, 7 inches ; bill, from the gape, ^ ; 

 wings, 3 T 6 Q ; tail beyond, 2 ; ditto from the base, 

 2J; tarsus, J. 



