PLOCEUS MARIQUENSIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate CIII. 
P. capite, cervice, dorso, pectore, ventre uropygioque flavis ; interscapuliis subbrunneis flavo-viridi-mar- 
ginatis; remigibus brunneo-rubris flavo-marginatis ; rostro pedibusque pallide flavo-brunneis carneo- 
tinctis. 
Loncitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 3 imc. 7 bn. ; caudse 2 unc. 4 lin. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, and the back and sides 
of the neck, gamboge-yellow, faintly tinted with green and variegated with 
umber-brown streaks — each feather having one of these in the course of 
the shaft. Interscapulars umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with a 
yellow of the same character as that of the head. Back, rump, and upper 
tail coverts yellow like the head, the latter verging to lemon-yellow. The 
lesser wing coverts brownish red, edged with lemon-yellow ; the primary and 
secondaryquill coverts, and the primary and secondary quill feathers, brownish 
red, the two first edged and tipped with yellowish white, the other two mar- 
gined externally with lemon-yellow. Breast, belly, and vent intermediate 
between gamboge and lemon-yellow. Tail feathers broccoli-brown, washed 
with lemon-yellow, and edged with the latter colour. The upper mandible 
intermediate between hyacinth-red and yellowish brown ; the lower interme- 
diate between wood-brown and flesh-red ; the toes and claws intermediate 
between yellowish brown and flesh-red. 
In young birds the yellow, where it exists, is less deep, and on them it 
appears only very sparingly on the interscapulars and under parts of the 
body. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather slender. Head small ; bill rather strong, parti- 
cularly at the base, conical, and pointed, the culmen enters slightly between 
the feathers of the forehead ; nostrils small, triangular, and placed near to 
the base of bill, immediately on the side of culmen. Wings short, rounded, 
and when folded reach to about the commencement of the second third of the 
