26 FEMALE GOLDEN-CROWNED GOLD-CREST. 
the toes and nails wax colour; the irides are dark brown. The 
frontlet is dull whitish-gray, extending in a line over and beyond 
the eye; above this is a wide black line, confluent on the front, 
enclosing on the crown a wide longitudinal space of lemon-yellow, 
erectile, slender feathers, with disunited 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 inferior 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-gray; the primaries 
are dusky, with a narrow greenish-yellow outer margin, wider at 
base, and attenuated to the tip, where it is obsolete. The second¬ 
aries 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 emarginated; 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, however, they are 
not seen here, as they breed farther to the north, and moult before 
their arrival in the autumn. 
