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though they do occasionally eat a few small berries. They are 

 very tame birds, and their plumage apparently never in good 

 condition, so that it is impossible ever to make up a really good 

 specimen of them. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, of a large series of 

 males, and of one female, the only one obtained : — 



Males. — Length, 6*5 to 6-75 ; expanse, 9*25 to 9'5 ; tail from 

 vent, 2-75 to 30; wing, 3-0 to3"05; tarsus, 0'6 to 0-62 ; bill 

 from gape, 0*75 to 0*82 ; weight, 0*5 to 0'6 oz. 



Female. — Length, 6*35 ; expanse, 9 - 12 ; tail from vent, 2-76 ; 

 wing, 2-76; tarsus, 0*6; bill from gape, 07. 



The legs and feet are pale bluish, or pinkish brown, or salmon 

 fleshy ; claws pale plumbeous blue ; lower mandible and edge of 

 upper mandible pale plumbeous ; ridge of culmen and tip of 

 upper mandible black ; rest of upper mandible dark plumbeous, 

 sometimes a horny brown ; irides vary from a pale umber or 

 snuffy brown to dark brown. 



This species has a number of fine black hair-like feathers, 

 fully an inch and half in length, springing from the base of 

 the neck ; they are very fine, and are not always observable at 

 first, but can generally be picked out with a pin in the worst 

 specimens, and to give this bird its due, its plumage is so exces- 

 sively soft and fluffy that good specimens are rare. 



The lores are very pale yellow above, becoming greyish white 

 immediately in front of the anterior angle of the eye ; the 

 feathers immediately round the eye are white or nearly so ; 

 the ear-coverts are very pale, dull yellow, a little pencilled, and 

 the longest of them feebly tipped with dull greenish ; the 

 leathers at the base of the lower mandible and under the ear- 

 coverts are mingled greyish white and pale yellow, sometimes 

 more decidedly mixed with grey ; the chin and middle of the 

 throat are nearly white, the greyish bases of the feathers show- 

 ing through faintly, with here and there little flecks of extremely 

 pale yellow ; the breast is somewhat similar, but the yellow stria- 

 tion is here somewhatmore marked, and there is a certain amount 

 of pencilling and shading with grey, olive grey, or olive green ; 

 the sides of the abdomen and flanks are olive green, a little min- 

 gled with grey and shaded with yellow ; the middle of the abdo- 

 men, vent and lower tail-coverts are a nearly uniform pale yellow, 

 pale primrose, I should rather call it, on the lower tail-coverts ; the 

 wing-lining and axillaries pale clear yellow ; the inner margins 

 of the quills pale fulvous ; the entire cap a dull brown, more 

 or less sparsely overlaid with olive green ; back, scapulars, 

 and rump very dull somewhat yellowish olive green, becoming 

 yellower at the tips of the longer rump feathers; upper tail- 

 coverts more rufescent, but still with a yellowish tinge ; tail 

 rather pale rufescent brown, margined towards the bases of 



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