PYRRHULAUDA LEUCOTIS. 



AvEs. — Plate XXVI. (Male, Female, and Young.) 



Man. — P. capite, cervice, huineris, abdomine, crissoquc nigris ; genis, fascia transversa pone nuchain, 

 macula ad latus pectoris, lateruni partibus posterioribus, uropygio, caudseque tectricibus siipcriuris 

 albis; Jorso, alarunique tectricibus niiuoribus, et secundariis castaneis; remigibus brunneis ; cauda, 

 rcctrice externa excepta, brunnea, quatuor rectricibus intennediis, apicibus marginibusque subrufis, 

 externa rufo-alba brunneo-umbrata. Rostro albo, bnuineo-uiiibrato ; oculis brunneis ; pedibus 

 carneis. 



Ftm. — Supra brunnea, plumis pallide rufn niar^inatis ; bunioris pallide castaneis albo uiarginatis ; gula, 

 gutture, pectoreqiie sordide albis, brunnco-punctatis ; abdomine nigro ; corporis latcrilins, crissoque 

 sordid^ albis, fusco-umbratis. 



LoNGiTHDO 5 unc. 



LoxiA LEUCOTIS, Salt, Abyss. App. page lix. 

 Fringilla otoleucus, Temm. PI. Col. 358, fig. 2 & 3. 



Colour. Male. — Head, neck, shoulders, breast and abdomen black ; ear 

 coverts, a transverse bar on the back of the neck, a blotch on each side of the 

 breast, the hinder portion of the flanks, the rump and the upper tail coverts 

 white, the two latter tinged with wood-brown ; interscapulars, back, lesser 

 wing coverts and the secondary quill coverts intermediate between chesnut 

 and tile-red, several of the coverts tipt and edged with white. Primary quill 

 coverts and the quill feathers intermediate between broccoli and umber-brown, 

 the tertiaries and a few of the innermost secondaries tipt and edged with pale 

 rufous. Tail, with the exception of the outermost feather of each side, 

 umber-brown, the four middle feathers the lightest, and tipt and edged with 

 pale rufous, the outermost feather rusty white clouded with brown, parti- 

 cularly upon the inner vane. Bill white clouded with dusky \ eyes dark- 

 brown ; legs and toes a flesh-colour shaded with brown. 



Form, &c. — Typical. Bill rather longer than that of P. Australis, more com- 

 pressed towards the point and narrower at the base than in that of P. Ver- 

 ticalis ; culmen towards the base but lightly curved, towards the tip much 

 arched ; head rather small ; wings when folded reach to the last third of the 

 tail ; quill feathers nearly as described in P. AusliaUs. Tail but very slightly 

 forked. Tarsus robust ; toes short and stout, the outermost and innermost 

 of equal length, and scarcely longer than the hinder one, the middle toe 



