456 ^^IHP AcJieen. 



The bill, legs, and feet are black; the iris, browii. A line from 

 near the nostrils to the eye, and projecting' a short distance 

 behind it, and a broad line from the base of the lower mandible 

 rather more than half an inch in length, black. The whole 

 forehead, top, and back of the head, the lores under the black 

 eye-streak, and a patch under the eye, including the basal half 

 of the ear coverts, buffy yellow ; the feathers greyish at the base, 

 and, those of the occiput especially, obscurely centred paler ; 

 the back of the neck and upper back, brownish grey ; the shafts 

 albescent, and the feathers tinged and suffused, most strongly 

 so towards the margins, with olive green, which varies in shade 

 and extent in different specimens ; the rump and upper tail 

 coverts are a more or less dull olive green margined with a 

 brighter tint of the same color ; the lower back is generally 

 browner, and less green ; the quills and rectriees are hair brown, 

 strongly suifused on the outer webs (and in the case of the 

 central tail feathers on both webs) with a kind of golden olive, 

 and margined brighter ; the greater and median wing coverts 

 similar, but a paler and duller olive green ; the lesser wing 

 coverts towards the shoulder of the wing centred paler and some- 

 times with a bluish grey tinge. The chin and throat white, with 

 a slight buffy tinge, in some specimens, towards the sides ; the 

 feathers of the breast conspicuously white shafted and white 

 centred ; laterally, a more or less dull olive brown, more or less 

 obsolete according to the state of plumage in which the bird is ; 

 abdomen, dingy brownish white, more or less striated with pale 

 brown ; lower tail coverts similar, but margined with chrome 

 yellow ; edge of the wing at the carpal joint, a rather bright 

 yellow; wing lining, pale rufescent white, yellower in some speci- 

 mens, more fawn colored in others; margins of the inner webs of 

 the quills on the lower surface strongly suffused with a very pale 

 slightly rufescent yellow. 



Mr. Davison says, " On a large tree growing in a village, I 

 saw a party that were keeping up a continual chatter like a 

 flock of Rypsipetes nilgliiriensis, flying from branch to branch 

 as they chased one another; I fired one barrel at them and 

 killed two, and found them to be this bird ; the note is quite 

 that of a Ilypsiipetes, I only observed them on this one 

 occasion." 



Otocompsa .....^ 



This is another species that, for want of works of reference, I 

 cannot identify. It may be tigus, or it may be iympanistrigits of 

 Miiller j but 1 am unable to ideuiify it. The following dimen- 



