STRIPE-BREASTED BRISTLE-NECK. 269 
back, but each feather is grey in the middle, and 
the shafts are of a still lighter grey ; the flanks and 
belly are like the back, but the trader wing and 
tail-covers, as also the under side of the tail are all 
paler and more fulvous ; the tips of the tail-feathers 
are pale fulvous, but without any defined spot or 
mark. 
The nuchal bristles do not spring, as they have 
been represented by M. Temminck,* from the crown 
of the head, but from the nape of the neck, and 
appear to be arranged in two fascicles, one on each 
side, each containing three or four of unequal length ; 
the longest measuring about one inch and a quarter. 
It may here he remarked that not only this, but 
the other two species now described, have the fea- 
thers on the crown of the head equally if not more 
lengthened than those on the chin and throat, so 
that they form, in the living bird, a decided crest, 
capable of being raised or depressed at pleasure. 
Total length, 8^ ; bill from the front nearly T 7 5 ; 
wings, 4 T e 3 ; tail beyond, ; ditto from the base, 
4 ; tarsus, T 8 S ; hind-toe and claw, iV 
PI Col pi. 88. 
