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emarginate. Tail of moderate length, slightly emarginate, the middle 

 feather being a twelfth of an inch shorter than the longest, the feathers 

 pointed. 



Bill and feet black. Iris brown. Upper part of head, and fore 

 part of back yellowish-olive, streaked with dusky ; the rump, the throat, 

 and a collar scarcely meeting behind, yellow ; a band over the eye and 

 the ear-coverts yellowish-red ; a white patch on the wing, formed by 

 the first row of small coverts, and the outer edges of the secondary 

 coverts white ; quills and tail feathers blackish-brown, edged with dull 

 greyish-white ; the three outer of the latter having a white patch on 

 the inner web toward the end. The lower parts are yellow, fading into 

 white behind ; the fore neck, the fore part of the breast, its sides, and 

 the parts under the wing marked with longitudinal, oblong, black spots. 



Length to end of tail 5^ inches, to end of wings 3^§ ; bill along the 

 ridge 1*5, along the edge of lower mandible |^ ; wing from flexure 2/^ ; 

 tail 2 ; tarsus ^\ ; hind toe I'j, its claw /^ ; middle toe ^^^, its claw 



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Adult Female. Plate CCCCXIV. Fig. 2. 



The Female resembles the male,' but has the tints duller, the rump 

 greenish-yellow, the white patch on the wing less pure and of less ex- 

 tent, the ear-coverts dull yellow, the lower parts with more white be- 

 hind, and with the streaks less distinct. 



In size and form this species is very similar to the last, but its bill 

 is shorter, thicker, and much less attenuated at the end. 



