MR, LEGGE ON PRIONOCHILUS VINCENS. 



Note on Prionochilus Fincens* Sclater, (Legge's Flower-' 

 Pecker) by W. V. Legge, F. Z. S. 



(Read Feb., 3d. 1873,) 

 Dimensions. — Male, total length 4*15 in.; wing 2°3 f 

 tail 1'2 ; tarsus *5 ; middle toe with claw 5 ; hind toe 



0- 25 ; bill to gape 045. 



Description. — Iris reddish brown ; bill black, lower 

 mandible light at base; legs and feet blackish brown. 

 Head, face, hind neck, upper surface, with lesser wing 

 coverts and margins of greater wing covert and tertiary 

 feathers dull steel blue, palest on the rump (which in some- 

 specimens has the feathers edged whitish) and with the 

 frontal feathers dark, centred ; wings blackish brown with 

 the basal portion of inner webs and under wing coverts 

 white ; tail black with a white terminal spot, mostly 

 on the inner webs of the four outer feathers and decrease 

 ing towards the innermost ; chin, throat and chest white 

 changing on the breast and under surface to primrose 

 yellow; flanks dusky, under tail coverts white, washed 

 with yellow. 



Female, length 4 in. ; wing 22*25 ; tail M. The 

 female is throughout lighter and duller in plumage than 

 the male. 



Bill and iris as in that sex ; legs and feet lighter in 

 hue. Head and hind : neck faded bluish ashen ; back 

 dusky olivaceous ; wing coverts margined with the same ; 

 wings lighter brown than in the male ; uppertail coverts 



* This bird has already been described in the Proc. L. Z. Society 

 this year, but as it is quite unknown to any member of our Institution 



1- subjoin the above description, 



