232 MERULIDA. 
Society have received specimens from Tunis, Egypt, 
Smyrna, Trebizond, and Erzeroom. 
The adult male has the beak orange brown; from the 
base of the beak to the eye a dark-coloured streak ; irides 
lake red: the whole of the head, neck, and body, above 
and below, with the upper and under tail-coverts, bright 
gamboge yellow; the wings black; the ends of the fea- 
thers of the spurious wing yellow; the outer edge of the 
primaries, and the tips of the secondaries and tertials, yel- 
lowish white ; upper surface of the two middle tail-feathers 
black, tipped with yellow; the outer tail-feather on each 
side has its basal half black, the remaining portion yellow : 
in the tail-feathers on each side between the outside feather 
and those in the centre, the black colour occupies a larger 
space in each successively; the tail in form is slightly 
rounded : under wing-coverts yellow; under surface of the 
quill-feathers and the dark part of the tail-feathers, greyish 
black ; legs and toes lead colour; the claws, like the beak, 
orange brown. 
The whole length of the bird is nine inches and a half. 
From the carpal joint to the end of the longest feather in 
the wing, six inches and a quarter: the first wing-feather 
not quite half as long as the second; the second not so 
long as the fourth, but longer than the fifth; the third 
feather the longest in the wing. 
The female has not the dark streak between the beak 
and the eye; the upper surface of the plumage is oil-green; 
upper tail-coverts greenish yellow; wing-coverts brocoli- 
brown ; the quill-feathers blackish brown; the ends of the 
spurious wing-feathers tipped with white ; outer edges and 
ends of the quill-feathers margined with dull white: upper 
surface of tail-feathers brocoli-brown, tinged with yellow 
at the base, streaked and tipped with brighter yellow ; 
