LOPHOTRIORCHIS KIENERI. 275 



than an inch in length ; crown, occiput, nape, and back of the 

 neck fawny brown ; every feather tipped with albescent or 

 yellowish white, and .ill the feathers of the crown and central 

 part of the occiput more or less centred with dark brown ; 

 crest springing from the centre of the base of the occiput with 

 the terminal visible portions deep brown, narrowly tipped whitish 

 like the rest of the feathers ; interscapular^" region and scapulars 

 a rather pale hair brown, the feathers tipped albescent, dark 

 shafted, and on the interscapulary region especially darkening 

 towards the centres; feathers of the back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts similar, but not dark centred: the three or four 

 longest scapulars with the whole visible portions dark brown ; 

 lesser and median coverts, and tertiaries, the same hair brown 

 as the back, and similarly tipped, but the tippings more decidedly 

 white; primaries, secondaries, and greater coverts blackish 

 brown, all the feathers narrowly tipped {very narrowly in the 

 case of the first five primaries) with white or brownish white ; 

 the tail a greyish olive brown, pretty broadly tipped with pure 

 white, and with ei^ht rather narrow, transverse blackish brown 

 bands, of which only five are visible on the central tail feathers 

 below the upper tail-coverts ; entire lower surface of the body, 

 axillaries, and wing-lining uniform snow white, except — 



(I.) The terminal halves of the ear-coverts, which are warm 

 fawny brown, black at the extreme tips where they join the 

 black line already referred to. 



(2.) The terminal portions of the elongated plume of 

 feathers starting on either side of the breast, which termi- 

 nal portions are in the longest feathers blackish brown, 

 tipped white, and in the others brown shafted or with brown 

 shaft stripes. 



(3.) The axillaries which each exhibit either a dark shaft 

 near the tip or a fawny-brown, linear-oval, shaft-spot near 

 the tip. 



(4.) One or two of the earlier primary greater lower 

 coverts, which exhibit an imperfect blackish brown bar. 



On the lower surface of the wing the first five primaries exhibit 

 a very conspicuous notch ; above this notch the feathers are 

 white, greyish brown towards the shafts, with three or four 

 narrow, transverse, dusky bars ; below the notch, the feathers 

 are dark brown, silvery grey towards the shafts, with three 

 rather indistinct, transverse, dark brown bars on this grey. 

 The lower surface of the tail is grey, with five to seven narrow, 

 transverse, dark brown bands ; on the outer web the outer 

 margin is also of this same colour. 



The bird described by Mr. Sharpe would seem to be some- 

 what older, and to have begun to acquire the yellow tinge of 



