410 Dr. H. O. Forbes : Notes on 



when it becomes orange-red on ventral margin. Lower 

 mandible : skin at base pale lavender ; ramus orange- 

 yellow, anterior third orange-lake scarlet. Gular pouch: 

 bars parallel to ramus and nearer to it purple-grey, the rest 

 brownish grey on a pale lavender background ; below level 

 of occiput the bars disappear and the pouch is uniform 

 greyish brown ; a broad purple streak runs parallel to neck 

 alougside the feathers. Legs and feet lavender with slight 

 tinge of green on metatarsus. 



Neck grey behind. 



Ancon, 19.9. 12. 



No. 285. ? . 



Colours of head, neck, and pouch exactly as in no. 269. 



The head pale lemon-yellow, as also some of the crest- 

 feathers ; the lemon-yellow traverses each side of the neck 

 passing down to meet in front of the chest, leaving a white 

 or less yellow area immediately below the pouch. Abdomen 

 spotted. Legs and feet dirty lavender. 



Ancon, 22.9.12. 



No. 338. ? . (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 



Irides straw colour ; skin round eye pink or carmine-pink ; 

 carunculations black and large between orbit and beak, but 

 smaller on the bare skin at posterior end of both mandibles ; 

 under the orbit and between it and the upper mandible they 

 are fewer and the skin is bluish purple. Upper mandible : 

 culmen chalky white, hook pale orange with a black spot 

 in posterior convexity of the hook ; lateral bar yellowish 

 chalky for one-fifth its length, then carmine-red, merging 

 into carmine-orange towards the tip. Lower mandible 

 orange chalky, then orange-carmine. Pouch : sooty black, 

 the light bars parallel to the lower mandible rich pale bluish 

 lavender, the lower ones somewhat paler ; the bars parallel 

 to the neck are rich bluish lavender. Legs and feet dirty 

 greenish blue. 



Top of head pale yellow^, which runs down the sides of 

 the sooty-black pouch to meet beneath it, where it becomes 

 paler. Neck pure white. 



