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tail-coverts plain olive-green, more yellowish posteriorly; a conspicu- 

 ous collar of orange, commencing at posterior end of the white malar 

 stripe and extending thence across sides of neck and hindneck; lesser 

 wing-coverts chestnut-rufous; middle coverts olive-green; rest of wing 

 dull blackish or dusky, the greater coverts and secondaries (especially 

 the tertials) edged with gra3'ish white, the secondaries sometimes 

 edged with olive-greenish basally; outer webs of primaries more or 

 less extensively white at base, this sometimes entirely concealed by 

 primary coverts, sometimes extending beyond them; tail olive-dusky 

 (the middle pair of rectrices paler, more olive or olive-grayish), with 

 edges of rectrices olive-greenish basally, grayish terminally; inner 

 webs of lateral rectrices usually edged terminally with white; chin 

 and sides of upper throat white, flecked with black; median portion 

 of throat (more or less broadly) clear yellow, passing into cadmium 

 orange on median portion of f oreneck (between posterior half, approxi- 

 mately, of the lateral black spaces); chest, breast, upper abdomen, 

 and anterior portion of sides yellow (lemon or gamboge) tinged with 

 olive laterally; rest of under parts white medially, light grayish olive 

 or olive-grayish laterally, the flanks indistincly streaked with darker; 

 under tail-coverts with a central (mostly concealed) sagittate space of 

 olive-grayish; maxilla black, mandible grayish (bluish gray or 

 plumbeous in life); iris dark reddish brown ^; legs and feet grayish 

 dusky (plumbeous in life'); length (skins), 147.3-168.9 (157); wing, 

 82.6-87.1 (81.6); tail, 61.7-68.6(64.8); exposed culmen, 11.4-13 (12.2); 

 depth of bill at base, 7.6-8.9 (8.1); tarsus, 18.8-21.6 (20.1); middle 

 toe, 11-15.5 (15).' 



Adult female. — Very different from the male. Above plain gray- 

 ish olive, the rump, upper tail-coverts, edges of rectrices (basally), 

 lesser wing-coverts, and edges of secondaries (sometimes also an 

 indistinct collar across hindneck and sides of neck), yellowish olive- 

 green; greater wing-coverts brownish gray, edged with pale olive- 

 grayish or pale olive-greenish, passing into whitish terminally; rest of 

 wings darker brownish gray, or dusky, the tertials edged with pale^ 

 olive-grayish or olive-whitish, the other secondaries with yellowish 

 olive-green, the primaries (more narrowly) with olive-whitish or pale 

 olive-grayish or olive-greenish; sides of head plain grayish olive or 

 olive-grayish like pileum, sometimes with a very indistinct supercil- 

 iary stripe of paler; a broad whitish malar stripe, usually flecked with 

 olive-grayish; beneath this, on sides of lower throat, a more or less 

 extensive and distinct patch of olive-grayish; under parts whitish, 

 more or less tinged with yellow on chest and breast and shaded with 

 olive-grayish across chest and on sides and flanks, more or less dis- 

 tinctly streaked with dusky, except on lower abdomen and anal region; 

 bill, iris, legs, and feet as in male; length (skins), 147.3-154.9 (150.9); 

 wing, 78.7-84.3 (81.5); tail,- 59.2-65 (62.5); exposed culmen, 11.4- 



' C. W. Richmond, manuscript. ^ Seven specimena. 



