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female measured ; Length, 13*1 • expanse 18 ; tail, from vent, 5 ; 

 wing, 5*45; bill, from gape, 1*6; tarsus, 1*12. The whole 

 upper mandible and gonys of lower mandible, blackish horny ; 

 rest of lower mandible, pale yellow, except the tip which is horn 

 black ; eyelids, slate color ; irides, dark red ; feet, dusky green • 

 claws, horny brown." 



This species is very close to striolatus, but may be distin- 

 guished at once by its much larger bill, measuring 1-3 to nearly 

 1*5 at front; by its larger size, it averaging, I should say, fully 

 two inches longer than striolatus, and by the conspicuous man- 

 dibular stripe, beginning at the base of the lower mandible, 

 composed of pale grey or greyish brown feathers, with black 

 central stripes, and running down on either side of the throat 

 for nearly an inch, and by the unstriated chin and throat. The 

 rump also, I think, is never cpiite so bright as in striolatus. 



The following are the dimensions, colors of soft parts, &c, 

 recorded from a large series of fresh specimens of both 

 sexes : — 



Males: Length, 12*3 to 12-75; expanse, 17'25 to 18-25; tail, 

 from vent, 4 - 5 to 5*0; wing, 5*4 to 5*82; tarsus, 1*12 to 1*2; 

 bill, from gape, 1*55 to 1*62; weight, 5 to 5*75 oz. 



Females: Length, 11*9 to 13; expanse, 17'5 to 18*4; tail, 

 from vent, 4*12 to 5; wing, 5*3 to 5 - 55; tarsus, 1*1 to 125; 

 bill, from gape, 1*5 to 1 # 65; weight, 4'75 to 5 ozs. 



The legs and feet are dull green, or dull brownish green ; the 

 claws, greenish horny, or plumbeous ; the irides, brown, or reddish 

 brown ; eyelids, plumbeous, or dark grey ; lower mandible, green- 

 ish, or in some chrome yellow, except a brown, or greenish brown, 

 streak from the angle of the gonys to the tip, and the tip ; the 

 upper mandible, blackish. 



The lower portion of the lores, brown ; the space under the eye 

 between it and the mandibular streak already mentioned, and 

 the ear coverts and feathers immediately round the posterior 

 half of the eye, pale grey brown, faintly striated darker. The 

 whole of the forehead, the upper part of the lores, and the whole 

 top and back of the head, including a short but full occipital crest, 

 velvet black in the female, crimson hi the male; the basal portion 

 of the feathers being grey, but these not showing through nearly 

 as much as they do in striolatus. The whole of the chin and 

 throat between the mandibular stripes pale fulvous brown, much 

 the same color as the lores, (at times slightly browner or green- 

 er,) unstriated. The neck all round a sort of olive yellow 

 tinged with brown, unstriated. The breast, abdomen, vent, 

 and lower tail coverts, white ; each feather mostly with a nar- 

 row central stripe, and two broader parallel stripes, one on 

 each web at or near the margin, which would seem to be 

 originally brown, but which , with the whole of the feathers on 



