1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 999 



wing six inches and a quarter, and middle tail-feathers five and 

 a quarter; bill to forehead an inch and three-quarters. Upper- 

 parts rather dull green, the rump and upper tail-coverts much brighter 

 yellowish-green: throat, fore-neck, and breast, greyish, without any 

 markings; the breast slightly tinged with grey in some, and always 

 the sides of the neck, passing into the hue of the nape: under-parts 

 from the breast white, each feather subterminally margined with 

 dusky-black, and a few having also a slight line of the same on part 

 of the shaft ; the under tail-coverts doubly marked with arrow-head 

 bars: primaries dusky, with a series of white spots barring their outer 

 webs, and the margin of their inner webs towards the base; the rest 

 of the large wing-feathers barred throughout the margin of their inner 

 webs, as seen conspicuously on the under surface of the wing: each fea- 

 ther of the tail is also conspicuously barred throughout on both webs : the 

 outer margins of the secondaries and tertiaries, together with their larger 

 coverts, are obscurely barred with a lighter colour ; and the primary 

 coverts and the winglet are marked like the primaries. The male has 

 the forehead and crown crimson, and the occiput inclining to scarlet; 

 which parts are in the female black, the feathers laterally margined with 

 light grey, as is also a streak from the corners of the mouth in both 

 sexes, which is bordered above by a white one continued from the 

 nostrils, and this again surmounted by a black one between ihe bill 

 and eye; there is also a white streak over the eye: bill yellowish, the 

 base of the upper mandible dusky. The young have a mottled appear- 

 ance, the margins only of the feathers of the upper-parts being green, 

 bordering a dusky tint; the barring of the tertiaries is more developed; 

 and the breast and lower-part of the fore-neck are marked nearly like 

 the belly, whereon the black portion of each feather is much broad- 

 ened internally, contracting the pale medial space within: the crimson 

 tips of the coronal feathers of the young male are much less developed 

 than in the adult, and there is scarcely a trace of red upon those of 

 the occiput : bill chiefly blackish. Gould's figure of this species is much 

 over-coloured, representing a green breast, instead of greyish with at 

 most a very faint tinge of green ; and the wings should be much more 

 sombre olivaceous-green ; the abdominal markings are likewise badly 

 represented. Hardwicke's figure assigned to P. dimidiatus by Gray, 

 would appear also to be a bad representation of the present species, 



