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PLATE 30. Figs. 1. and 2. The male and female in summer. 



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Bill red at the base, the other part lemon-yellow. Fore- General 

 head, eye-streaks, chin, and throat, deep smoke-grey, tionT P 

 Crown of the head deep brown, the feathers being mar- 

 gined with yellowish-brown, and speckled with white. 

 Sides of the neck, breast, and under parts pale oil-green, 

 tinged with grey ; with transverse bars and spots of 

 white, surrounded by a narrow list of black. Mantle, 

 shoulders, and scapulars black, the feathers being deep- 

 ly edged with oil-green, and marbled with white, sur- 

 rounded by a narrow list of black. Wing-coverts oil- 

 green, tinged with yellowish-brown, and with white 

 spots, surrounded by a line of black. Lower part of 

 back, and upper tail-coverts black, edged with white 

 and pale oil-green. Under tail-coverts yellowish- white. 

 Quills hair-brown, tinged with oil-green, with the outer 

 web of the first quill-feather white. Legs wax-yellow. 



The young have the upper parts of a deeper oil-green, Young 

 and the white more dispersed in the form of small spots. 

 Eyebrows deep grey, with numerous white specks. 

 Cheeks, chin, and throat greyish-white, with a few 

 darker specks. Lower part of the neck and the breast 

 oil-green, tinged with grey, and with small spots of 

 white. Belly and abdomen greyish-white. Quills deep 

 hair-brown. Legs deep oil-green, tinged with grey. 

 Bill dirty saffron-yellow at the base, the tip brown. 



