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yellow. Iris and bill black, legs brown, feet light yellow. 

 Size larger than in A. chloris. Wing 2'05-2'l inches ; 

 tarsus 0*81. 



The adult female differs chiefly from the female of 

 A. chloris in having the feathers of the head and nape light 

 brown with marginal streaks of black (as in the immature 

 bird) ; the superciliary stripe white and very strongly de- 

 fined ; the back dark olive-brown, indistinctly streaked with 

 blackish in younger birds ; the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 brownish- yellow. Wing 1* 95-20 inches ; tarsus 0*8. 



Young birds may be distinguished from the young of 

 A. chloris by having less green on the upper parts, only the 

 rump and outer margins of the quills being tinged with 

 olive. The pale brown black-edged feathers, confined to 

 the head and nape in the young of A. chloris, extend over 

 the back in the present species, and the spotting on the throat 

 and breast is much bolder. 



This difference in plumage cannot be dependent on sex; 

 for Mr. W. P. Pycraft has ascertained, from an examination 

 of three young birds in spirits of about the same age, that 

 one specimen with the entire back striped and two with the 

 back olive-green are males. 



In 1875 Dr. Finsch {op. cit.) indicated the fact that 

 A. citrina (Gmel.) was distinct from A. chloris (Sparrm.), and 

 to some extent he pointed out the distinguishing characters 

 of the female of the former, as well as the difference in size. 

 Sir Walter Buller did not believe in these differences [cf. B. 

 New Zealand, i. p. 114 (1888)], but apparently Dr. Finsch 

 was right. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant stated that, with a view to augment- 

 ing the funds of the Club, he had caused a series of Picture 

 Post-cards to be printed from photographs taken by 

 Mr. R. B. Lodge from the nesting-groups of British Birds in 

 the Natural History Museum. After paying initial expenses, 

 he proposed to hand over all the proceeds to Mr. Witherby 

 to meet expenses in connection with the work of the B. O. C. 

 Migration Committee, Kite-Fund, &c. Each packet of 



