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a complete list of the birds of the Tenasseritn Provinces ; in the 

 meantime the following are the dimensions (recorded in the 

 flesh) and descriptions of both sexes : — 



Male. — Length, 8*25 to 8*75 ; expanse, 13'45 to 14'0 ; tail, 

 from vent, 2*05 to 2*5; wing, 4'0 to 4 - 2 ; tarsus, 1"55 to 

 165 ; bill, from gape, 1*1 to 1*15 ; weight, 2 to 3 oz. 



The bill is black; the legs, feet and claws fleshy white; the 

 iris very dark brown. 



The forehead, the anterior half of the crown, the lores, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts, stripe over the eye, and collar round 

 back of the neck, (almost hidden by the long full occipital 

 crest,) breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts all velvet black, 

 the largest of the latter tipped with blue ; postei'ior half of 

 crown, occiput, and full occipital crest glossy lazuline blue, 

 much like that of Irena puella ; tail and upper tail-coverts blue, 

 the latter tending to ultramarine ; primaries and their greater 

 coverts dark hair brown ; rest of upper surface rufescent olivace- 

 ous ; the later primaries and earlier secondaries more or less 

 inconspicuously margined towards the tips with grey ; chin 

 and upper throat pure white ; base of throat for a breadth of 

 about half an inch intense golden yellow. Sides and flanks 

 also, but in some specimens a duller golden yellow, more or less 

 regularly barred with black ; thigh-coverts greyish white, obs- 

 curely barred with pale brown. 



On the lower surface of the wing there is a dull white bar 

 at the base of the primaries. 



Female. — Length, 7*75 to 8*12 ; expanse, 135 to 1362 ; 

 tail, from vent, 2*0 to 225 ; wing, 4"05 to 4'15 ; tarsus, 1*3 

 to 1*5 ; bill, from gape, P05 to 1*2; weight, 2*5 oz. 



BilV, black; gape, whitish; iris, very dark brown; eyelids 

 black ; legs, feet, and claws, ding}*- fleshy white. 



Forehead, lores, crown, occiput, and nape, bright ferruginous 

 orange brown ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and a broad patch behiud 

 these latter black ; the feathers of the ear-coverts with pale 

 orange brown shafts ; chin and throat, dull brownish white ; 

 lower tail-coverts dingy black, the longest tipped with 

 dull blue ; the whole of the rest of the lower surface of the 

 body, brownish white, strongly tinged in places with yellow, 

 regularly and closely barred with black. Both the yellow tinge 

 and the black barring are in some specimens more or less obsolete 

 down the centre of the lower abdomen, and the thigh- coverts 

 are pale fulvous brown, faintly and obsoletely barred. The rest 

 of the upper surface of the body not already described similar 

 to that of the male, but slightly less rufescent. 



When dealing with a species of this genus I take the oppor- 

 tunity of noting that in recent livraison of the Museum 

 des Pays-Bas (dated April 1874), Professor Schlegel remarks 



