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tarsus, # 9S to 1*07. The bill is pale milk-blue, the iris, dull 

 red; the eyelids, plumbeous; the feet, green; the claws, horn color." 

 In both sexes the forehead is brown, with more or less of a green- 

 ish or yellowish tinge at the tips of some of the feathers. In the 

 male, the whole of the rest of the top of the head, occiput, and 

 nape, together with the short full occipital crest, are bright red. 

 In the female, these parts are olive yellow, becoming brighter and 

 yellower on the crest. The lores, chin, throat, cheeks, ear coverts are 

 pale brown, with more or less of an olive yellow tinge, according to 

 the specimen, always most conspicuous on the ear coverts, and 

 brightening to their tips, which, with the feathers immediately 

 behind them, and in the male the feathers of the lower part of 

 the nape (mostly hidden by the red crest), are a golden olive. 

 The scapulars, interscapulary region, coverts, except the greater 

 primary coverts, tertiaries, outer webs of secondaries, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts and margins of the outer webs of the tail 

 feathers towards their base, varying shades, according to the 

 specimen, of golden olive, olive yellow or olive green, brightest 

 and yellowest on the middle of the back ; feathers of the rump 

 and upper tail coverts generally tipped more or less with crimson, 

 but at times only rufescent. Tail feathers, dark hair-brown, 

 spotless as viewed from above; winglet, primaries, and their 

 greater coverts, dark hair-brown ; all but the first two primaries 

 olivaceous on their outer webs, much paler on the earlier ones 

 towards the tips, and in the later ones becoming much the same dull 

 olive yellow as the secondaries. All the quills with large oval 

 spots or imperfect white bars on the inner webs, two at the base 

 of the first primary, three on the second, four on the third and 

 succeeding quills. Wing lining mingled brown and white ; the 

 edge of the wing, and more or less of the wing lining, tinged 

 with dull olive green ; breast, abdomen, flanks, lower tail coverts, 

 dull brown ; all but the latter, more or less tinged with dingy olive 

 green ; traces of small, dull, white spots towards the inner margins 

 of the inner webs of the lateral tail feathers towards their bases. 



178.— Micropternus phaioceps, Btyth. M. burma- 

 nicus, Hume. 



Although the Thayetmyo specimens differ in many respects 

 slightly from the ordinary phaioceps from Lower Bengal, Tirhoot, 

 Dacca, and Tipperah (in that they are larger ; that the plumage 

 is generally a lighter and brighter chestnut ; that the dark bars on 

 the tertials are narrower and further apart ; the head less brown, 

 the chin and throat paler, and the. pale margins to the feathers 

 more conspicuous), still with a large series before me I do not 

 think that these distinctions invariably hold good ; and I have 

 one specimen, at any rate, from the Himalayas which is absolutely 

 inseparable from my type specimen of this supposed species, and 



