Mr. E. Hargitt on the Genus Chrysophlegma. 275 
nasal plumes brown ; forehead, crown, and occipital crest 
carmine-red, the bases of the feathers being buffy brown on 
the sinciput and greyer on the occiput; nuchal crest yellow, 
washed with red; hind neck like the back; lores brown, 
spotted with red; sides of the face and neck brownish buff, 
the feathers of the face tipped with pale red, those on the 
side of the neck faintly spotted with buffy white at the tip, 
and having an almost obsolete central spot of brown, the 
feathers on the lower side of the neck barred with brown 
and the greater part having a pink tinge; chin and throat 
buff, with a few paler spots and some almost obsolete spots 
of brown; fore neck and chest buff, whiter upon the under 
surface of the body, and the whole crossed by zigzag markings 
of blackish brown ; under tail-coverts dusky brown, spotted 
and barred with dull buffy white; under wing-coverts olive- 
dusky, spotted and barred with white. Total length 9*0 inches, 
culmen 1*2, wing 5’2, tail 3*15, tarsus 1*0; toes (without 
claws)—outer anterior 083, outer posterior 0*8, inner anterior 
O’58, inner posterior 035. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the 
forehead, lores, face, the whole of the neck and the chest 
covered with minute rounded spots of blackish brown and 
buffy white. Total length 9*0 inches, culmen 1*07, wing 
5*0, tail 3*1, tarsus 0*92. 
Dr. Sclater (P. Z.S. 1863, p. 211) has pointed out the 
differences between the present species and C. malaccense, 
and blames Malherbe for having wrongly named the bird 
Chloropicus miniatus , which he represents in his Monograph, 
plate lxxvi. figs. 1, 2. I cannot entirely agree with Dr. 
Sclater; and I am of opinion that the male bird figured by 
Malherbe is true Chrysophlegma miniatum , and not C. malac¬ 
cense. The red back shows this to be the case; and although 
in C. miniatum the nuchal crest is always more or less red, still 
I do not remember to have ever seen a single specimen in 
which there was not a small amount of yellow upon some of 
the feathers. The majority, however, of the nuchal feathers 
are red, the remainder being yellow washed with red, gene¬ 
rally at the tips, and I have seen a specimen in which some 
