PLOCEUS SUBAUREUS.— Smith 



AvES.— Plate XXX. (Fig. I, Male.) 



I', froute, vertice, capitis Intcribus, guttureque vitcllinis ; niielul, cervice, dorso, alammque tectricibiis 

 uiiuoiibus viriili-flavis ; caudas tectricilius, pectore, abdomineque hiteis ; remigibus brunneo-rubris, 

 versus basin flavo-marginatis ; rectricibus brunneo-flavis, flavo-marginatis. Rostro livido-brunneo ; 

 oculis, pedibus, iinguibusque camels. 



LoNGlTUDo corjjoris cum capitc 4 unc. ; caudio 2 unc. 9 liu. 



PLocEns suBADREUs. — Smith. Proceedings of South African Institution, April, 1832. 



Colour. — The front, crown, sides of the head, and the throat, bright saf- 

 fron yellow ; nape, back and sides of the neck, interscapulars, back and lesser 

 wing-coverts intermediate between sulphur and gamboge-yellow ; upper tail 

 coverts, breast, belly, and imder tail coverts a clear and deep lemon-yellow 

 (light chrome-yellow) ; primary quill coverts intermediate between sulphur and 

 king's yellow, their tips between oil and honey-yellow ; secondary quill coverts 

 similar in colour to the tips of the primaries and all margined with king's yellow. 

 Quill feathers light brownish red, the outer vanes narrowly edged with kings 

 yellow, the inner vanes towards their base, broadly, with primrose-yellow, which 

 is also the colour of the inner surface of the shoulders. Tail intermediate 

 between sulphur and honey-yellow, the outer vanes narrowly edged with king's 

 yellow, the inner vanes, broadly, with pale primrose-yellow. Bill liver-brown, 

 the under mandible slightly mottled with reddish brown ; eyes red ; legs, toes 

 and claws a deep flesh colour, the latter clouded with brown. 



Form, &c. — Typical. Bill very thick and rather short ; ciilmen strongly 

 arched. Wings when folded reach over nearly the basal half of the tail, fourth 

 and fifth quill feathers of the same length and longest, third and sixth slightly 

 shorter, second rather shorter than the third, first narrow and about one-third 



