PLOCEUS MARIQUENSIS.— Smith. 



AvEs. — Plate CIII. 



P. capite, cervice, dorso, pectore, ventre uropygioque flavis ; interscapuliis subbrunneis flavo-viridi-mar- 

 ginatis; remigibus brunneo-rubris flavo-niarginatis; rostro pedibusque pallida tlavo-bruiineis carneo- 

 tinctis. 



LoNGiTUDo e rostri apice ad basin candffi 3 nnc. 7 lin. ; caudee 2 nnc. 4 lin. 



Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, and the back and sides 

 of the neck, gamboge-yellow, faintly tinted with green and variegated with 

 mnber-brown streaks— each feather having one of these in the course of 

 the shaft. Interscapulars umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with a 

 yellow of the same character as that of the head. Back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts yellow like the head, the latter verging to lemon-yellow. The 

 lesser wing coverts brownish red, edged with lemon-yellow ; the primary and 

 secondary quill coverts, and the primary and secondary quill feathers, brownish 

 red, the two first edged and tipped with yellowish white, the other two mar- 

 gined externally with lemon-yellow. Breast, belly, and vent intermediate 

 between gamboge and lemon- vellow. Tail feathers broccoli-brown, washed 

 with lemon-yellow, and edged with the latter colour. The upper mandible 

 intermediate between hyacinth-red and yellowish brown ; the lower interme- 

 diate between wood-brown and flesh-red ; the toes and claws intermediate 

 between yellowish brown and flesh-red. 



In young birds the yellow, where it exists, is less deep, and on them it 

 appears only very sparingly on the interscapulars and under parts of the 

 body. 



Form, &c.— Figure rather slender. Head small ; bill rather strong, parti- 

 cularly at the base, conical, and pointed, the culmen enters slightly between 

 the feathers of the forehead ; nostrils smafl, triangular, and placed near to 

 the base of bill, immediately on the side of culmen. Wings short, rounded, 

 and when folded reach to about the commencement of the second third of the 



