BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 331 



flanks a little shaded with bright yellow ; lower tail-coverts 

 bright yellow, some of the shortest of them with dark shaft 

 stripes ; edge of the wing yellow ; axillaries greyish white ; 

 wing-lining underneath the edge of the wing, black, mar- 

 gined with yellow ; some of the lowest of the black feathers 

 on the upper breast generally fringed whitish at their edges ; 

 entire back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pale bright, rather 

 lemon yellow ; wings black ; secondaries and tertiaries nar- 

 rowly margined and tipped yellow ; the 3rd to the 7th or 

 8th primaries margined with white or yellowish white, and 

 their greater coverts are tipped or margined with this color ; 

 all but the first two or three primaries are narrowly margined 

 at the tips with very pale yellow ; tail black, all but the cen- 

 tral tail feathers with a greater or smaller extent of the terminal 

 portions of the inner webs bright yellow, the extent being 

 greatest on the exterior tail feathers. 



The females differ widely from the males ; the breast, abdomen 

 and lower tail-coverts are similar in both sexes, but the female 

 has the upper portion of the breast like the lower protion ; the 

 entire chin, throat, and cheeks below eye and ear-coverts, white, 

 feebly striated with grey ; the lores grey brown ; the ear- 

 coverts and entire cap and nape an olivaceous yellow, 

 somewhat paler and duller on the ear-coverts and obscurely 

 striated with dusky on the cap ; the eyelid feathers 

 bright yellow ; back and sides of the neck at its base 

 and upper tail-coverts, a rather brighter aud purer yellow ; 

 the back, scapulars, and rump dull olivaceous yellow, less 

 olivaceous than the cap ; wings hair brown ; primaries and 

 their coverts mostly margined with greyish white ; the 

 rest of the feathers with the outer webs, and tertiaries with 

 both webs, suffused with a dull olive yellow shade; the 

 secondary greater and median coverts, and generally the 

 secondaries and tertiaries themselves, very narrowly mar- 

 gined at the tips with brighter and purer yellow ; tail deep 

 brown almost blackish ; the central feathers entirely, and the 

 lateral feathers on the outer webs towards their bases, overlaid 

 with the same color as the tertiaries, and all the lateral tail 

 feathers with similar spots on the inner webs to those of 

 the male, and with the rest of the inner webs generally mar- 

 gined with pale yellow. 



Young males are like the females, but are darker and greener 

 above, and have the cap and throat more distinctly striated 

 with dusky. Older males, which have otherwise assumed 

 the adult plumage, still have the yellow of the upper parts 

 much infuscated, and have the feathers of the throat, front 

 of the breast and upper breast more or less margined with 

 greyish white, producing a somewhat striated appearance. 



