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FEMALE GOLDEN-CROWNED GOLD-CREST. 
over and beyond the eye ; above this is a wide black line, con- 
fluent on the front, enclosing on the crown a wide longitudinal 
space of lemon yellow, erectile, slender feathers, with dis- 
united webs ; a dusky line passes through the eye, beneath 
which is a cinereous line, margined below by a narrow dusky 
one. The cervix and upper part of the body are dull olive 
green, tinged with yellowish on the rump. The whole infe- 
rior surface is whitish ; the feathers, like those of the superior 
surface, being blackish-plumbeous at base. The lesser and 
middling wing-coverts are dusky, margined with olive green, 
and tipped with whitish ; the greater coverts are dusky, the 
outer ones immaculate, the inner ones have white tips, which 
form a band on the wings. The inferior wing-coverts, and all 
the under surface of the wings, are more or less whitish grey; 
the primaries are dusky, with a narrow greenish yellow outer 
margin, wider at base, and attenuated to the tip, where it is 
obsolete. The secondaries are dusky ; on the outer web, they 
are whitish near the base, then black, then with a greenish 
yellow margin, extending nearly to the tip ; the margin of the 
inner web is white ; the secondaries nearest to the body are, 
moreover, whitish on the terminal margin. The tail is emar- 
ginated ; the feathers are dusky olive green on the margin of 
the outer web ; the inner margins, with the exception of the 
two middle ones, are whitish. 
Until their first moult, the young of both sexes are much 
like the adult female, except in being destitute of the yellow 
spot on the crest, which is greenish olive. In this state, how- 
ever, they are not seen here, as they breed farther to the north, 
and moult before their arrival in the autumn. 
