274 LOPHOTRIORCHIS KIENERI. 



The youngest specimen I have yet seen is a young male, 

 shot on Singapore Island, on the 19th January. It is in the most 

 beautifully fresh plumage, and I apprehend has only just left 

 the nest. Broadly speaking it is a comparatively light brown 

 above, the feathers, darker centred or shafted, and every feather 

 tipped albescent or white; the longest crest feather is nearly 

 two inches long-; beneath it is everywhere an uniform snow white, 

 except the tips of the large plumes of feathers that, springing 

 on each side of the breast, cover the sides of the body, which 

 tips are dark brown, and the axillaries which exhibit fulvous- 

 brown, linear, oval, subterminal shaft-spots. 



&t page 312 of Volume I, I quoted the description of 

 a specimen figured in Jardine and Selby's illustration of orni- 

 thology, plate 66. Comparing our young bird with that figure, 

 there is no doubt, I think, that the two belong to the same 

 species ; but ours is a younger bird ; the brown is not nearly 

 so dark in our bird; and the albescent tippings to all the fea- 

 thers of the upper parts seem to have disappeared in Jardine 

 and Selby's specimen. On the other hand the primary greater 

 coverts, which in that bird are represented as tipped with 

 pure white, are iu our bird only tipped in the same 

 way as all the rest of the feathers of the upper surface, 

 with a sort of yellowish or brownish white. Probably this 

 pure white is an artistic exaggeration. Lastly, the crest in the 

 figure is represented as occipital, whereas it really arises near 

 the base of the occiput, and might more px*operly be called 

 nuchal. 



With this exception I do not doubt that, had our bird lived 

 three or four months longer, so as to lose the pale nestling 

 tippings to the feathers, and permit the gradual darkening of 

 these which seems to take place, it would have agreed most 

 exactly with Jardine's figure. That a bird of this species should 

 have been killed on the coast near Aberdeen, as was asserted when 

 the plate referred to was published, seems hardly credible. Mr. 

 Gurney will probably be able to tell us whether anything 

 further as to the history of this specimen has ever transpired. 



I will now give a more detailed description of our youngest 

 bird. 



Male. — Singapore, 19th January 1880. — Length, 21 ; wing, 

 14 ; tail, from insertion of feathers, 79 ; tarsus, 2'6 ; bill, from 

 gape, straight to point, 1*5. 



The feet and cere were pale creamy yellow; the irides pale 

 yellow ; bill and claws horny black ; lower mandible yellowish 

 at base. 



Forehead and a narrow line over the eye fawny white ; 

 a strongly-marked black line running downwards from the 

 posterior angle of the eye over the ear-coverts, rather more 



