1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 1001 



and spotted instead of barred with fulvous white, which in some spe- 

 cimens is obsolete on all but its middle pair of feathers. Length 

 about twelve inches, of wing five inches and a half, and tail four 

 and a half; bill to forehead an inch and three-eighths. Head as in 

 P. squamatus, the ear-coverts grey, and streak from the corners 

 of the lower mandible as in P. striolatus, or broad and consisting 

 of white feathers having a black central line, which in P. striolatus is 

 less strongly defined, and the streak is in that species so nearly similar 

 tQ the striated adjoining plumage as to be little conspicuous : throat 

 greenish, contrasting with the streak from the corners of the mouth ; 

 and the neck green deeply tinged with buff all round, having only 

 indistinct striae in front ; breast the same, the markings becoming 

 more defined, and on the belly they are strongly defined ; the ground- 

 hue of the breast is deeply suffused with fulvous-green, having a dark 

 green double streak on each feather uniting at the tip, and a narrow 

 medial line upon the shaft, the lateral edges of the feathers inclining 

 to be albescent ; on the belly the ground-hue is whiter, and the 

 marking of the feathers is nearly as in the foregoing species, but with 

 sap-green, instead of black as in P. squamatus, and greenish-dusky as 

 in P. striolatus : on the sides of the breast, or rather of the fore-part 

 of the abdomen, the feathers have a broad dark green streak on their 

 outer web, away from the shaft, and a narrow one on their inner web 

 adjoining the shaft, besides which the lateral edge of the inner web is 

 also dark green ; the corresponding feathers of P. striolatus have the 

 whitish part much broader, and containing a broad mesial streak of 

 greenish-black, which again has a central white mark in some : the 

 upper-parts resemble those of P. striolatus in brightness of colouring ; 

 and the middle tail-feathers are marked with dingy pale spots along 

 the exterior of both webs, more or less trace of which exists also on 

 the outer webs of the other tail-feathers : bill black, the lower man- 

 dible bright yellow except at tip. The female I have not seen. A male 

 in its first plumage has all the colours duller, and the markings of the 

 breast and under-parts very indistinct. The Society's specimens are 

 from Arracan, except the young one which was obtained further South, 

 being the so-termed P. squamatus of Vol. X, p. 923. Mr. Jerdon, 

 however, clearly enough indicates this species in the description of his 

 P. squamatus of Southern India. 



