350 SYLVIADA. 
Malta. The Zoological Society have received specimens 
from Trebizond; Edwards considered it an inhabitant of 
various parts of Asia; and M. 'Temminck includes it in his 
Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 
The beak of the male is black; the irides hazel; the 
forehead greyish white ; the base of the crest on each side 
is bounded by a narrow black line ; the crest feathers bright 
yellow, tipped with orange ; sides of the head, nape, back, 
and upper tail-coverts, olive green, slightly tinged with yel- 
low; the smaller wing-coverts tipped with white ; coverts of 
the primaries black ; those of the secondaries tipped with 
white, overlying a black spot on the base of the secondaries 
and tertials ; wing and tail-feathers brownish black, edged 
with greenish yellow ; all the under parts yellowish grey ; 
legs, toes, and claws, brown. 
The whole length about three inches and a half. From 
the carpus to the end of the longest primary, two inches : 
the first quill-feather very short ; the second shorter than 
either of the next four; the fifth the longest in the wing. 
In the female, the plumage generally is less bright in 
colour, and the crest is lemon-yellow. 
