268 STRIPE-BREASTED BRISTLE-NECK. 
for although M. Temminek, who had his specimen' 
from us, states that it is distinguished from its con- 
geners by unusually large feathers on the throat, 
and therefore calls it barbatus, this statement, 
nevertheless, is hy no means correct, for these en- 
larged feathers are equally conspicuous both in 
T. olivacem and gularis. The name, therefore, 
being founded in palpable error, appears to us not 
fit to he retained. 
The chief distinction of this bird is the striped 
plumage of the throat and breast ; for although the 
chin and part of the throat seems to he pure yellow, 
yet it will he found that each feather is almost white 
in the middle. M. Temminek has not noticed this, 
and his description is so imperfect in other respects, 
that we shall now endeavour to amend it. 
Size of a small thrush. General colour of the 
hack, wings, and tail dark olive-green, with a very 
slight tinge of ferruginous on the latter part. Head 
and neck dark brown, each feather having a shade 
of light grey around it ; this brown gradually be- 
comes olive on the interscapulars and the remain- 
ing parts of the plumage, where there is no grey 
whatever. The chin, and a little w r ay down the 
throat, is pale or canary-coloured yellow ; the fea- 
thers being somewhat larger than usual, but not 
particularly so, and each are so pale in the middle 
as to be almost pure white ; the ears are grey-brown, 
each feather being striped with dusky yellow ; the 
lower part of the neck, the breast, and nearly the 
whole of the body is olive, nearly as dark as the 
