392 SCARLET TANAGER. 
with seven anterior scutella, and two lateral plates forming an acute 
edge behind ; toes of moderate length ; middie toe longer than the tar- 
sus, lateral toes much shorter and equal, hind toe stout. Claws rather 
large, arched, much compressed, acute. 
Piumage soft and blended; very small bristles at the base of che 
upper mandible. Wings of ordinary length, the second quili longest, 
the first four having the outer web attenuated toward the end; se- 
condaries slightly emarginate. ‘Tail rather long, straight, emarginate, 
of twelve feathers. 
Bill dull greenish-yellow, brown above. Iris hazel. Feet greyish- 
blue, claws greyish-yellow. The general colour of the plumage is pure 
scarlet; the wings and tail black; the axillar feathers, inner lower 
wing-coverts, and more or less of the inner webs of nearly all the 
quills, white. 
Length to end of tail 7 inches, to end of wings 53, to end of claws 
63 ; extent of wings 113; wing from fiexure 477; tail 2}9; bill along 
the ridge 74, along the edge of lower mandibie {$; tarsus 7%; hind toe 
4t, its claw #4; middle toe #4, its claw #. 
Adult Female. Plate CCCLIV. Fig. 4. 
Bill and feet as in the male. The general colour of the upper 
parts is yellowish-green, tinged with grey, of the lower parts greenish- 
yellow; the feathers of the wings and tail greyish-brown, margined 
with yellowish-green, the secondaries and tail-feathers narrowly tipped 
with greyish-white, the lower wing-coverts and the edges of all the 
quills white. 
Length to end of tail 64 inches, to end of wings 53, to end of claws 
61; extent of wings 103. 
The young when fledged resemble the female; the males being, 
however, distinguishable from the females by their brighter tints. 
The young male in autumn, after the first moult, has the lower 
parts of a much brighter yellow, the upper of a lighter green, but with 
all the feathers having a central black mark, those on the head oblong, 
on the middle of the back broad, on the rump linear. The wing-co- 
verts are black ; the quills and tail-feathers brownish-black, margined 
_ with yellowish-green. 
Two males in my possession, shot by Dr Truprav, are remarkable 
