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neck, and variegated with black spots on the breast,” 
has these parts pure and unspotted. Nor can it he 
the female, which our author says has the “ under 
parts variegated with brownish-black*.” 
The whole of the upper plumage is of a full 
uniform greyish-brown, slightly tinged with yel- 
lowish-olive on the crown, and on the edges of the 
wing-feathers and the tail ; this colour includes the 
eye and the ears ; the middle of the rump, and of 
the upper tail-covers, is marked by a stripe of 
cream-coloured white. The three lateral tail-fea- 
thers are white, tipt and edged externally with 
blackish-brown, the two next have the white only 
on their inner margin, and the middle pair has no 
white; the outer-feathers are half as long only as the 
middle, and the next is shorter than the third. 
From the chin to the breast the colour is of a light 
but clear and delicate orange-yellow, deepest and 
brightest on the breast, below 'which all the re- 
maining parts are cream-white, and without any 
spots or markings whatever ; the under wing-covers 
are whitish ; bill and feet blackish. 
Total length, 7f inches ; bill, from the gape, T 7 5 ; 
wings, 4 ; tail beyond, 1^ ; ditto, from the base, 3 ; 
tarsus, j’ g . 
* Le Grand Indicateur, Ois. d'Af v. p. 135, pi. 241. I 
have since procured specimens of this species, which confirms 
what is here said of its being quite distinct from P.fiavicollis. 
