276 LOPHOTRIORCHIS KIENERI. 



plumage of the lower surface, &c, which characterizes the 

 next stacre, and which in its full intensity only appears, I think, 

 at the next moult. I quote his description : — 



t( Young. — Above dark brown, the feathers lighter on their 

 maro-ins; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but the greater 

 series with narrow, white margins ; hind neck paler than back, 

 rufous brown, with dark brown longitudinal centres, causing 

 a slightly streaked appearance; quills blackish, with whity 

 brown shafts; the secondaries paler brown, like the scapulars, 

 all the quills narrowly banded with black, nearly obsolete on 

 the primaries, but more distinct on the secondaries, especially 

 underneath, where the lining of the wing is whitish ; tail 

 dark brown, whitish at tip, and crossed with seven or eight 

 rather narrow bands of black ; crown of head dark brown, 

 with tiny cream-coloured tips to the feathers ; the occipital 

 crest black, and 1'9 inch long; forehead and eyebrow very 

 broad, rich creamy buff; cheeks and entire underparts 

 creamy white, as also the tarsal feathers and under wing and 

 tail-coverts ; the greater under wing-coverts with a few indis- 

 tinct blackish bars. Total length, 20'5 inches ; wing, 13*3 ; 

 tail, 8-5 ; tarsus, 2'5." 



Next we have a supposed male killed in April 1876 in Sikhim. 

 Generally this specimen is black or intense blackish brown 

 above, but with the rich creamy yellow, almost a maize yellow, 

 of the bases of the feathers showing through, about the nape, 

 and with the entire lower surface of this same rich creamy 

 yellow, but with a few black linear lanceolate shaft spots on 

 the feathers of the breast and sides of the abdomen, and with 

 the tibial plumes, and the lower tail-coverts, intermingled with 

 a slicrhtly duller shade of the chestnut of the adult. The 

 winor-lining is still white, but the axillaries are bright chestnut 

 (not quite so red as in the adult), with a narrow black shaft 

 stripe ; the tips of the lateral pectoral plumes are black pre- 

 ceded by chestnut, and a very few of the feathers across the 

 middle of the abdomen are here and there tinged with chestnut, 

 showing that this colour first comes not by a moult, but by 

 a chano-e in the tint of the existing feathers. The forehead 

 and the line over the eye extending in this bird, half an inch 

 bevond the posterior angle, are of the same rich yellow, as the 

 under parts, and the ear-coverts are of this colour also, but 

 with black shaft stripes, and the longest of them broadly 

 tipped with black. The tail is very similar to that of the 

 younger bird, but so much darker in tint that on the central 

 feathers, at any rate, the transverse bars are scarcely discern- 

 ible. The white tips to the rectrices have disappeared, and 

 the feathers are only just perceptibly paler margined at the tips. 



