316 BIRDS OF TENASSERlSl. 



[This is a forest bird, but occurring also in thin tree jungle, 

 and even well- wooded gardens. It is met with singly or in pairs, 

 foraging about the trees and living chiefly on berries, and never, 

 I believe, descending to the ground. They are rather lively 

 birds, moving about a great deal, and having a pleasant soft 

 whistling note, something like that of Ixosfinlaysoni, but distin- 

 guishable at once. — W. D.J 



This species is very variable in size, the females, as usual, 

 being somewhat smaller than the males. 



The following are the dimensions recorded in the flesh from 

 numerous specimens : — 



Length, 6'8 to 7'25; expanse, 9*75 to 10*25 ; tail from vent, 

 2-82 t(T3-25 ; wing, 3 to 3-25 ; tarsus, 0'62 to 0-68 ; bill from 

 gape, 0*8 to 0*9 ; bill from forehead to point, 0*7 to 0*8; weight, 

 075 to 0-9 oz. 



Legs and feet pale pinkish brown or reddish fleshy, but feet 

 slightly darker than tarsi ; upper mandible pale reddish horny 

 to dark horny brown ; lower manbible pale fleshy brown to 

 pale bluish pink or dirty plumbeous blue ; eyelids dark black- 

 ish grey ; irides excessively variable, probably according to 

 age, dark slaty, clear grey, salmon pink, pale golden brown. 



Cap olive brown with, in most specimens, a ver}*- recognizable 

 rufescent tinge ; mantle olive brown, much paler and more 

 yellowish-greenish, as a rule, than in olivacea; tail feathers, dull 

 brownish ferruginous, considerably paler, as a rule, than in oliva- 

 eea; margins of tail feathers, especially towards their bases, and 

 visible portions of upper tail-coverts, brighter and more rusty oli- 

 vaceous than the back ; lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of the head, 

 nearly uniform greyish olive green, or greenish olive grey ; 

 sides of the breast greener, and generally more the color of the 

 upper back ; flanks similar, but often with a sandy-brownish tinge ; 

 chin and throat greyish white, more or less, it varies greatly in 

 different specimens, streaked, pencilled, or tinged with pale yel- 

 low; breast and abdomen similar, but the former more shaded 

 with a faint greyish olive, and more yellow intermingled with 

 the abdomen ; lower tail-coverts a decided pale ochraceous yellow, 

 the ochraceous tinge being, however, much more marked in some 

 specimens than in others, but always being better marked than 

 in olivacea ; and whereas the lower tail-coverts in this latter, in all 

 the numerous specimens that I have examined, exhibit more or 

 less of pale brown centres, none of those of the present species 

 that I have seen (and I have over 30 now before me) show more 

 than the barest trace of this. The wings are hair brown ; the pri- 

 maries broadly margined, and all the visible portions of the rest of 

 the feathers overlaid with olivaceous, much the same color as the 

 back, but rather brighter towards the bases of the primaries; wing- 

 lining and axillaries white, strongly tinged with primrose yellow. 



