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neck, and variegated with black spots on the breast," 

 has these parts pure and unspotted. Nor can it be 

 the female, which our author says has the " under 

 parts variegated with brownish-black*." 



The whole of the upper plumage is of a full 

 uniform greyish-brown, slightly tinged with yel- 

 lowish-olive on the crown, and on the edges of the 

 w r ing-feathers and the tail; this colour includes the 

 eye and the ears ; the middle of the rump, and of 

 the upper tail-covers, is marked by a stripe of 

 cream-coloured white. The three lateral tail-fea- 

 thers are white, tipt and edged externally with 

 blackish-brown, the tw r o next have the white only 

 on their inner margin, and the middle pair has no 

 white; the outer-feathers are half as long only as the 

 middle, and the next is shorter than the third. 

 From the chin to the breast the colour is of a light 

 but clear and delicate orange-yellow, deepest and 

 brightest on the breast, below which all the re- 

 maining parts are cream-white, and without any 

 spots or markings whatever ; the under wing-covers 

 are whitish ; bill and feet blackish. 



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

 wings, 4 ; tail beyond, 1 T S ; ditto, from the base, 3 ; 

 tarsus, T V 



* Le Grand Indicates, Ois. VAf. v. p. 135, pi. 241. I 

 have since procured specimens of this species, which confirms 

 what is here said of its being quite distinct from P.ftavicollis. 



