J 002 Mr. BlytJis Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



4. P. occipitalis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 8; Gould's Century, 

 pt. XLVII: P. barbatus, Hardwicke and Gray, apparently a bad 

 representation of the female: P. affinisC?), Raffles, Lin.- Trans. 

 XIII, pt. II, 288, which name would hold precedence. Length 

 about twelve inches and a half, or perhaps thirteen inches in the 

 recent specimen, of wing six inches, and middle tail-feathers four 

 and a half; bill to forehead an inch and five-eighths. General 

 colour green, but much less vivid than represented in Gould's figure, 

 the rump brighter and more yellowish green as usual, though in 

 one of eight specimens before me the hue of the rump is all but 

 uniform with that of the rest of the upper plumage, and the same 

 specimen has also the tail quite plain, whereas in all the rest the 

 middle tail-feathers are barred (in general conspicuously) with dingy 

 greenish, and occasionally the other tail-feathers obscurely so, espe- 

 cially the outermost : the under-parts likewise vary, being in some 

 nearly as bright green as the upper, and in others pale dusky-ash, 

 with sometimes a few green and partially green feathers intermixed : 

 throat pale ; the sides of the head grey ; a black streak from the 

 corners of the mouth, the feathers of which are laterally edged with 

 grey in the female; and crown of the male crimson, the occipital 

 region black continued to the nape, — the crown of the female being 

 black with grey lateral edges to the feathers, and the occiput pure 

 black as in the male : primaries and their coverts barred with a series 

 of white spots on their outer webs, and wings underneath marked as 

 usual in the group : bill wholly dusky black. Inhabits the Himalaya, 

 and also the Tenasserim provinces ; likewise Sumatra, if this be the 

 P. qffinis of Raffles, described as follows : — 



" This species is about ten or eleven inches in length, dusky-green 

 above, with a shade of yellow on the lower part of the back ; 

 cinereous or slightly ferruginous below, mixed with brown on the 

 abdomen. Quill-feathers brown spotted with white. Tail-feathers 

 brown, pointed as usual in this genus; the two uppermost with a few 

 light-coloured spots along their inner margin. A gray patch encircles 

 the eyes, bounded below by a black stripe mixed with white spots, 

 which runs from behind the lower mandible. In the male the crown 

 of the head is red, often variegated with black, each feather being 

 black at the base and red at the tip; in the female it is entirely black. 



