PACHYGLOSSA. 385 



quills brown, edged with lighter blue ; a narrow white moustachial 

 streak down the cheeks ; point of the chin white ; under wing- 

 coverts and auxiliaries pure white ; the whole lower plumage deep 

 yellow, paler on the vent and under tail-coverts and washed with 

 green on the sides of the body ; a large patch of crimson on the 

 breast. 



Female. Upper plumage green ; wings and tail dark brown edged 

 with green; a pale red patch on the crown; sides of the head 

 green tinged with grey ; an ashy-grey moustachial streak ; lower 

 plumage dull ashy green, suffused with yellow on the breast and 

 abdomen. 



The young resemble the female but have no coronal patch. 



Legs, feet, claws, and lower mandible dark plumbeous ; upper 

 mandible black ; iris dark brown (Davison) ; iris red-brown (Ward- 

 law Ramsay). 



Length 3*8 ; tail 1'2; wing2'2; tarsus '55; bill from gape '45. 



Distribution. Procured hitherto within our limits only at Ban- 

 kasun at the extreme southern point of Tenasserim. The range of 

 this bird extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



924. Prionochllus maculatus. The Wliite-iJiroated Flower-pecker. 



Pardalotus maculatus, Temm. PI. Col. iii, pi. 600, f. 3 (1836). 

 Prionochilus maculatus (Temm.*), Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 752 ; Wald. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 379 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 199 ; Hume, Cat. no. 



240 quint, ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 340 j Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 69. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage and lesser wing- 

 coverts green ; a patch of fiery red on the crown ; greater coverts, 

 wings, and tail brown, edged with green ; sides of the head ashy 

 green ; lores and moustachial streak greenish white ; a dull green 

 streak below this moustachial streak ; the space between these green 

 streaks pale yellow ; breast and sides of the neck bright yellow, 

 streaked with brown ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow ; sides of the body dusky yellow ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale yellow. 



Female. Differs from the male merely in having the coronal patch 

 orange-yellow. 



In the males, legs and feet very dark plumbeous, in the females 

 dirty smalt-blue ; upper mandible and the lower to the angle of 

 gonys black; the rest of the bill plumbeous in males, smalt- 

 blue in females ; iris dull red (Hume fy Davisoii). 



Length 3'7 ; tail 1-1 ; wing 2-1 : tarsus -5 ; bill from gape -5. 



Distribution. Tenasserim from Mergui down to Malawun ; 

 extending down to the Malay peninsula. 



Genus PACHYGLOSSA, Hodgs., 1843. 



The genus Pachynlossa resembles Prionochilus in many respects, 

 but the wing is extremely long with a much shorter first primary, 

 TOL. ii. 2 o 





