COMMON GAXLINULE. 
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genus Plotus. On the lower part of the belly and 
vent, the feathers are tipped with greyish white, 
which prevails more or less on the centre of these 
parts, and on the flanks, where the oil green predo- 
minates, the feathers are dashed with long streaks 
of white ; the true under tail-coverts are white, but 
the feathers of the vent are deep black, and run in 
upon them in an angular point ; the naked parts 
of the tibiae are bright vermilion-red, shading to 
yellow, and often appear conspicuous ; the feet and 
legs are olive green. In the female the colours 
are not so bright, and the frontal shield does not 
cover so large a space. In a specimen before us, 
the rump is barred at the tips of the feathers with 
deep brown and pale yellowish-brown, producing a 
pleasing arrangement. In the young, the frontal 
shield is scarcely visible, the whole plumage has a 
tint of brown spread over it ; on the throat brown- 
ish-white, and on the lower parts being yellowish- 
brown, paler in the centre of the belly, and nearly 
wanting the white longitudinal streaks seen in the 
adults ; the feet and legs sire of a duller tint. The 
young, when newly hatched, are covered with a 
hair-like black down. 
