Description. — Adult male. Bill light prussian blue, darker on maxilla. Lores black, 

 meeting below the chin and in front, where the black passes into olive and is succeeded 

 by an ill-defined coronal patch of gamboge-yellow, gradually shading into yellowish 

 olive, which extends over the whole surface of the sides of the head, neck, mantle, 

 back, and rump, but is rather brighter on the last ; lower surface gamboge-yellow, 

 brightest on the throat, and shading into olive on the flanks. Wing-lining primrose- 

 yellow, passing into white. Wing- and tail-quills blackish brown, margined outwardly 

 by olive and the former inwardly by greyish white, while the middle pair of the latter 

 have most of the inner web dusky olive ; irides dark hazel ; feet bluish black. 



Dimensions. — Total length 4"5 inches, wing 2-5, tail 2, culmen '4, tarsus -75. 



