RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 53 



the black of the chin and the extreme upper portion of the 

 throat; the crop patch is bounded below by a velvety black line 

 about 0*13 in breadth, below this the breast is pale greenish 

 yellow, the feathers obscurely centred with orange red, this 

 portion of the breast is bounded on either side by a continua- 

 tion of the black band already noticed ; the axillaries and 

 wing lining are pure white or nearly so ; the entire abdomen 

 and the lower tail-coverts are olive green, yellower and paler 

 on the sides ; wings are dark hair brown, but most of the lesser 

 and median secondary and tertiary coverts are tipped with 

 maroon. 



Female. — Length, 41 ; expanse, 5'7 ; tail from vent, 1*15 ; 

 wing, 1*8, tarsus, 0*52; bill from gape, 0'8. 



Legs and feet, reddish brown ; upper mandible, black ; lower 

 mandible, very dark horny brown ; irides, deep brown. 



Forehead, crown, occiput, and nape, dull, rather pale, hair 

 brown, the feathers excessively narrowly margined paler, giving 

 a slightly squamose appearance to these parts ; a dusky line 

 through the lores from the nostrils to the eye ; chin, throat, 

 sides of neck, dull dusky grey, faintly tinged greenish ; mantle, 

 green, the dusky bases of the feathers showing through ; rump- 

 band, very pale yellow, almost white in the central portion ; 

 wings and tail, blackish brown, the feathers margined with 

 olive green on the outer webs ; the external lateral tail feathers, 

 which are considerably shorter than the rest, tipped with 

 greyish white and traces of similar tippings to the next or even 

 2 or 3 next feathers ; breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts, 

 dull greyish olive green ; axillaries and lower wing-coverts, 

 white. 



SJemitlg bcscrikb Swedes. 



Republications. 

 Picus manderinus, Gould, var. ap. God.-Aust. 



This species has for its nearest ally in these districts P. 

 majoroides, but the outer tail-feathers are white with narrow 

 black bars, in contradistinction to P. majoroides, in which 

 they are black with broad white ones. 



Above it is the counterpart of P. majoroides : the back, 

 wing, and tail rich velvety black ; spots on the wing-feathers, 

 moderate ; a very large and conspicuous white wing patch 

 formed by the secondary coverts ; a scarlet band on the nape ; 



