FEMALE GOLDEN-CROWNED GOLD-CREST. 183 
manner of living. The golden-crowned gold-crest associates 
in small bands, consisting of a whole family, whilst the fire- 
crowned is only observed in pairs. The latter is more shy, 
and frequents the tops of the highest trees; whereas the 
former is more generally observed amongst low branches and 
bushes ; the voice of the fire-crowned gold-crest is also stronger. 
Their nests, however, are both of the same admirable con- 
struction, having the entrance on the upper part; but the 
egos are different in colour, and those of the fire-crowned are 
fewer in number. 
The female golden-crowned gold-crest is three inches and 
three-quarters long, and six in extent. The bill is black ; the 
feet dusky; the toes and nails wax colour; the irides are 
dark brown. The frontlet is dull whitish grey, extending in 
a line over and beyond the eye; above this is a wide black 
line, confluent on the front, enclosing on the crown a wide 
longitudinal space of lemon yellow, erectile, slender feathers, 
with disunited webs ; a dusky line passes through the eye, 
beneath which is a cinereous line, margined below by a narrow 
dusky one. The cervix and upper part of the body are dull 
olive green, tinged with yellowish on the rump. ‘The whole 
inferior surface is whitish; the feathers, like those of the 
superior surface, being blackish plumbeous at base. The 
lesser and middling wing-coverts are dusky, margined with 
olive green, and tipped with whitish ; the greater coverts are 
dusky, the outer ones immaculate, the inner ones have white 
tips, which form a band on the wings. ‘he inferior wing- 
coverts, and all the under surface of the wings, are more or 
less whitish grey; the primaries are dusky, with a narrow 
greenish yellow outer margin, wider at base, and attenuated 
to the tip, where it is obsolete. The secondaries are dusky ; 
on the outer web, they are whitish near the base, then black, 
then with a greenish yellow margin, extending nearly to the 
tip; the margin of the inner web is white; the secondaries 
uearest to the body are, moreover, whitish on the terminal 
margin. The tailisemarginated; the feathers are dusky olive 
