NOVELTIES. 4.45 



The sexes do not differ in size. The following is a resume 

 of the dimensions of eight specimens (four of each sex) measured 

 in the flesh : — 



Length, 12'75 to 13*3 ; expanse, 19*5 to 20*5 ; tail, from 

 vent, 5*0 to 5"6 ; wing, 6 - l to 6*45; tarsus, 1*1 to 1*2; bill, 

 from gape, 1*5 to 1*6 ; bill, at front, 1*25 to 1*35 ; weight, 4-75 

 to 6 ozs. 



The legs and feet are a dirty brownish green ; bill horny 

 brown ; upper mandible from nostrils to base, and lower mandi- 

 ble from angle of gonys to base, with gape, greenish yellow ; 

 irides from pale to gamboge yellow. 



The fully adult male has the lores, a narrow frontal band, and 

 the entire sides of the head (sides of jaw, cheeks, ear-coverts, 

 &c.,) and nape, velvet black ; the entire cap deep, rather dull 

 crimson. In younger birds the crimson is confined to a circular 

 patch about the size of a six-pence on the crown, and between 

 this and the entire cap every intermediate amount of crimson 

 is to be noticed. 



The chin, throat, upper breast, and sides of the neck are 

 bright gamboge yellow, paler and greener in younger birds ; 

 the interscapulary region, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, wing- 

 coverts, (except the greater primary coverts) outer webs of 

 secondaries, and the greater parts of both webs of the 

 tertiaries a beautiful bright golden green, much as in the same 

 parts of Chrysophlegma Jlavinucha ; lower back and rump 

 intensely bright crimson; tail feathers plain dull black, at 

 times faintly tinged with greenish on the margin towards their 

 base ; primaries and their greater coverts black, with large con- 

 spicuous white* bars, or bar-like spots on the inner webs, and in 

 the case of the former corresponding white spots on parts of the 

 outer webs of all except of the first primary ; the white spotting of 

 the outer webs occurs in a transverse band across the primaries; 

 it is at the base of the second, lower on the third, and so on 

 until at the eighth or ninth it is quite at the tip ; the inner webs 

 of the secondaries are similarly strongly barred with white ; the 

 abdomen, wing lining, axillaries and flanks are light grey, each 

 feather with one or more hastate pale brown bands, not very 

 unlike what we see in squamatus and striolatus, and all these 

 parts in some individuals are more or less overlaid with green ; 

 the lower breast is similar to the abdomen, but is very strongly 

 tinged and overlaid with a greener shade of the yellow of the 

 upper breast and throat ; the lower tail-coverts are brown, with 

 a white fringe, and one or more hastate white bars following 



