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The thvee tertiaries chestnut on the inner webs and at the tips ; 

 dull golden yellow on the outer webs, and with narrow black 

 tips ; entire back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts, light 

 slaty grey ; in some specimens the lesser wing-coverts are more 

 or less suffused with this color. In most specimens the longest 

 upper tail-coverts are narrowly tipped with black ; sometimes, 

 in less mature birds I take it, obscure traces of similar tippings 

 are just distinguishable on all the feathers of the rump and back ; 

 one very fine male has extremely narrow yellow tips to the tail 

 feathers and a yellowish green tinge on the webs of the central 

 ones, but this too I take to be indicative of immaturity. 



In the female the stripe over and behind the eye is leas mark- 

 ed and greyish white ; the lores are very pale grey ; the forehead 

 and crown are pure clear grey, shaded on the occiput with 

 olivaceous ; the entire back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, 

 pale greenish grey, faintly fulvous on the rump, and generally 

 purer grey on the longest upper tail-coverts. The females vary 

 a good deal in the shade of the' upper surface, which is greyer 

 in some, greener in others ; the wings are black ; the later 

 primaries and most of the secondaries narrowly tipped white ; 

 all but the first three primaries margined with golden olive, 

 the 3rd to the 7th, however below the emarginations being 

 margined white ; primary greater coverts, blackish brown ; both 

 webs of tertiaries and a portion of the outer webs of secondaries 

 and their greater coverts greenish golden olive ; the tertiaries 

 usually with a more or less distinct chestnut spot at their tips. 



Tail feathers black tipped, the central ones very narrowly ; (in 

 some obsoletely) the lateral ones more and more broadly, with 

 dull yellow; almost the whole of both webs of the central tail 

 feathers, except just inside the yellow tippings, and the greater 

 portion of the outer webs of the lateral tail feathers, and some- 

 times of both webs of the pair next the central feathers, 

 suffused with the same greenish golden olive as the wings. 



The lower parts are greyish white on chin, throat and fore- 

 neck, and very pale fulvescent white on breast, abdomen, vent, 

 aud lower tail-coverts, generally more or less shaded browner, 

 or even slightly olivaceous on the sides and flanks. The color 

 of the lower surface varies a good deal in different specimens ; 

 in some it is browner and more fulvescent than I have describ- 

 ed, and the brownish fulvescent shade extends over the foreneck 

 right up to the throat. 



611. — Allotrius melanotis. Hodgs. 



Blyth gives this species from Tonghoo, B. of B., p. 109, but 

 I am inclined to suspect that he did not discriminate the 

 nearly allied A. intermedins, and that this latter was the spe- 

 cies of .which he saw a specimen from Tonghoo. 



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