206 Wires doaderk, Gumey’s Notes on 
dark clove-brown; even in this young bird the crest was well 
developed.” 
Mr. Hume, in continuation of the passage which I have 
already quoted from p. 3386 of his ‘ Scrap-Book,’ remarks :— 
“‘ Year-old birds have, at times, the lores, cheeks, and face 
quite grey, while old birds are to be seen nearly white below, 
each feather with a conspicuous median stripe of the darkest 
brown; some young birds, too, are so dark a brown above as, 
in some lights, to appear almost black, while the old are often 
a mixture of pale brown and greyish.” 
The British Museum possesses a specimen from Kamptee, 
in Central India, which is not only as dark on the upper 
parts as is described by Mr. Hume in the concluding sen- 
tence of the above paragraph, but is equally so on the under- 
parts, resembling the darkest phase of the immature P. api- 
vorus; this specimen has grey lores, and a blackish crest a 
trifle over aninch in length. A similar bird from Malacca, 
but without grey lores and crestless, being apparently quite 
young, and probably not fully grown, was in the collection 
of the late Lord Tweeddale ; this example shows slight traces 
of transverse bars on the abdomen ; and both it and the dark 
bird from Kamptee have the three dark throat-marks strongly 
developed. 
In reference to these throat-marks it may be well to 
observe that they appear to be at all ages a very variable 
character, sometimes being either partially or entirely absent, 
and when present being more extended and more strongly 
marked in some individuals than in others. The central or 
gular mark (which I have never met with in P. apivorus) is 
of more irregular appearance in P. ptilorhynchus than the 
two malar or side-stripes, being frequently wanting im speci- 
mens in which the latter are distinctly present; but, on 
the contrary, the gular stripe is never present (so far as I 
have observed) when the malar marks are absent. 
Mr. Hume, in the exhaustive article in his ‘ Scrap-Book’” 
on this species as observed in India, from which I have already 
quoted, describes in detail some of the variations of plumage 
incident to the adult birds and to those passing from im- 
