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wings margined with olive-green ; white streak from lower mandible 

 and under-parts paler and duller coloured, the igneous spot smaller. 



Female. Olive-green above, paler and more yellowish below, with 

 pale yellow along the throat, and darker yellow along the breast ; 

 streak from bill whitish. Coronal spot igneous-yellow. In both 

 sexes the axillaries and under wing- coverts are pure white. 



Length about 3^ inches ; wing 2 to 2\ inches ; tail 1^ inch ; 

 bill to gape . and tarse \ inch. 



Pinang and Malacca. Common. 



191. Prionochilus maculatus. 

 Pardalotus maculatus, Temm. PI. Col. 600. f. 3. 

 Prionochilus maculatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 29. 



Adult. Upper-parts olive-green, the igneous coronal spot pale ; 

 lores dull whitish ; a whitish streak from base of lower mandible 

 separating another of olive-green from the yellowish- white of the 

 middle of the throat ; under-parts yellow, brightest along the middle, 

 and streaked laterally with olive-green. Axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts pure white. Size of P. percussus. 



From Pinang and Malacca. Also inhabits Borneo. 



192. BUTRERON CAPELL1I. 



Columba capellei, Temm. PI. Col. 143 ; Knip. et Prev. Pig. t. 38. 



Vinago capellei, Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. p. 492 (1829). 



Toria capellei, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 848. 



Vinago giganteus, Vigors, Zool. App. Mem. Raffles, p. 674. 



Treron magnirostris, Strickland, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 115. 



Butreron capellii, Bonap. C. G. Av. ii. p. 9. 



From Pinang. 



In this species the beak is lengthened by the prolongation of its 

 soft and tumid basal portion, becoming, as remarked by Mr. Strick- 

 land, " almost vulturine in form." 



Iris blackish-brown ; bill pale yellow ; feet pale orange. — Cantor, 

 MS. Note. 



193. Treron nipalensis. 



Toria nipalensis, Hodgson, Asiat. Res. xix. p. 164. t. 9, fig. (1836) ; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 84/. 



Thoria (i. e. beaked), Nepal (Hodgson). 



Krocha, Malays (Blyth). 



Poonai Cahioara, Malacca (Cantor). 



Green, yellowish beneath and towards the tail ; crown ash-coloured ; 

 mantle of the male, deep marrone-red, and a faint tinge of fulvous 

 on the breast ; primaries and their larger coverts black, the latter 

 margined with yellow ; middle tail-feathers green, the rest with a 

 blackish medial band, and broad grey tips ; lower tail-coverts cinna- 

 mon-coloured (more or less deep) in the male ; subdued white, 

 marked with green in the female. Bill greenish-white, with a large 

 vermilion spot occupying the membrane at the lateral base of the 



