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the males), the bills are considerably longer than those of the 

 male Hendersoni. 



The following are measurements taken from the skin : — 

 Length, 115; wing, 5*9; bill, at front, 2*0; covered 

 for 0"4 by frontal plumes ; tail, from vent, 4 ; the exterior 

 tail feathers on either side 0"3 shorter than the rest ; 4th and 

 5th primaries equal and longest; 6th primary, 0*1 ; 3rd, 0*18 ; 

 2nd, 065; and 1st, 1'85 shorter than the longest; tarsus, 1*93; 

 hind toe and claw, 0*87 ; claw only, 0'4 ; mid toe and claw, 1*2. 

 The bill, legs, and feet are black ; the nareal tufts vinaceous 

 fawn color. 



The lores, a band under the eye, not quite extending to 

 the posterior angle ; a broad streak over the eye, extending to 

 the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts and sides of the neck pale vinaceous 

 fawn color ; chin and throat the same color, but mottled with 

 dull black from the bases of the feathers, shewing through, just 

 as in some of the black- throated Scucicolas in winter plumage, 

 leading one to suspect that in summer these parts maybe black; 

 base of the lower mandible, and a broad moustachial patch, and 

 an ill- defined stripe running upwards from this behind the eye, 

 and then backwards over the ear-coverts, and dividing these 

 from the long supereilium, dull black; forehead, crown, and 

 occiput black, strongly glossed with steel blue ; the feathers of 

 the occiput narrow, pointed, and prolonged to form a short full 

 demi-crest; entire mantle, including lesser and median wing- 

 coverts and rump, a rich vinaceous fawn color, much the same 

 color as Garrulus bispeeularis ; winglet, pure white ; greater pri- 

 mary and secondary coverts black, strongly glossed with 

 blue ; primaries, 9th and 10th, entirely pure white, except at 

 the extreme bases on the inner webs, where they are brownish 

 black ; 8th primary similar, but with the terminal half inch 

 brown, and the basal portion of the shaft brownish. The rest 

 of the primaries Avhite, with the whole of the tips and the 

 shafts blackish brown ; secondaries, white-tipped for about a 

 quarter of an inch, and the inner webs brownish black ; the 1st 

 secondary, with the entire outer web, white ; the rest with the 

 outer webs black, strongly glossed with steel blue ; the terti- 

 aries, with the inner webs, white, and in each feather a decreas- 

 ing breadth of black, glossed with blue, on the outer webs. 



Upper tail-coverts white, tinged with vinaceous fawn ; tail 

 feathers white, the central pair strongly tinged towards the 

 margins with vinaceous fawn, and with a conspicuous blackish 

 brown shaft stripe ; the lateral feathers faintly tinged with 

 vinaceous on the exterior margin, less and less so as they 



