8 YELLOW-HEADED TROOPIAL. 



band below the eye, and a narrower one above it, black. The rest of 

 the plumage is glossy black, excepting two bands on the outer part of 

 the wing, formed by some of the smaller coverts, and the primary 

 coverts, which are white. 



Length to end of tail 9 inches ; bill along the ridge i| ; wing from 

 flexure 5i§ ; tail 4^% ; tarsus ly^j ; hind toe ^j, its claw i\ ; second toe 

 i%, its claw ^1 ; third toe {^, its claw ^ ; fourth toe ||, its claw j%. 



Female. Plate CCCXXXVIII. Fig 3. 



The female, which is much smaller, is of a uniform greyish-brown 



colour, with the feathers at the base of the upper mandible, a band over 



the eye, and the fore part of the neck light yellow ; the throat dull white, 



. and the feathers on the middle of the breast margined with white toward 



the end. The bill and feet are dusky brown. 



Young. Plate CCCLXXXVIII. Fig. 4. 



The head represented is that of a young male assuming the plu- 

 mage of the adult. 



