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Females.— Length, 7*85 to 8*25 ; expanse, 1175 to 12 # 25 ; 

 tail from vent, 275 to 3-0 ; wing, 375 to 3-96; tarsus, 075 to 

 0*8 ; bill from gape, 1-05 to M ; weight, 1*23 to 175 oz. 



Legs, feet and claws pale to dark plumbeous ; bill black j base 

 of lower mandible sometimes brown ; irides vary — brown dark 

 wood brown, lake, or crimson ; eyelids blackish grey. 



In the male the lores, from nostril to eye, eyelid feathers, cheeks 

 involving just the basal portion of the ear-coverts, chin, throat and 

 central portion of fore-neck velvet black ; a short narrow violet blue 

 mandibular stripe on either side over the covered portion of the 

 rami of the lower mandible; at the posterior upper portion of the 

 eye some small yellow feathers are generally intermincrled with 

 the black on the eyelid ; the whole of the rest of the bird's plu- 

 mage is bright green, somewhat yellower and paler, more of a sap 

 green, below, and more of a grass green, (deepest on the wino-s 

 and tail) above ; inner webs of quills and sometimes part of the 

 inner webs of the tail-feathers hair brown ; all the tail feathers 

 obscurely tipped paler, which tippings below have usually a 

 greenish tinge. 



The female is very similar, but wants the black of the male ; the 

 eyelid feathers, chin and throat, and generally a portion of the 

 centre of the fore-neck pale yellow ; the mandibular stripe ill 

 marked and verditer blue. 



The males in this species have along the anterior portion of the 

 ulna a small verditer torquoise blue patch, very much less con- 

 spicuous than in most of the species of this genus, and in fact not 

 observable in specimens until the feathers are carefully raised, 

 but I cannot discover the same patch in any of the six beautiful 

 females now before me, and I think it must be wanting in this 

 sex. 



463 quat.— Phyllornis cyanopogon, Tern. (4). 



Bankasoon. 



A straggler to the extreme south of the province. 



[I have often shot this further south in the Malay Peninsula, 

 where it is not uncommon ; within our limits it is rare. The 

 habits, voice and food of all these species are precisely similar. — 

 W.D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh of 

 males : — 



Males.— Length, 675 to 7-0; expanse, 9'82 to 10-62 ; tail from 

 vent, 2-5 to 2-62 ; wing, 3'2 to 3*4 ; tarsus, 07; bill from gape, 

 08 to 0-85 ; weight, 0-62 to 0"8oz. 



Legs and feet dark plumbeous ; bill black ; irides dark brown. 



The male of this species has the lores from the nostril to the 

 eye, the cheeks, chin, throat, and a broad band down the middle 



