however, with a decided greenish tinge, and the colour usually brightest and most intense towards the
bases of the primaries; the tips of the tertiaries and later secondaries more or less untouched with this
colour, giving the effect of rather irregular ill-defined black or blackish tippings. The tail is dark brown,
margined everywhere, and both webs of the central and the outer webs of the lateral feathers suffused with
a somewhat duller shade of the wing-colour, varying as this does from bright golden olive to dull greenish
olive-yellow. The wing-lining varies: when the red descends far on the breast, it 1s chiefly ruddy olive-
brown ; but in others, which show less red on the breast and abdomen, it is a pure olive or olive-hrowa,
some few of the longest feathers being like the lower surface of the quills, a dark glossy, somewhat blackish
hair-brown; the edges of the wing are white, yellowish, or ruddy in patches, varying a good deal in
different specimens.” |

The figures in the Plate represent a male and female of about the size of life; they have been drawn
from a pair of birds kindly lent me by Captain Wardlaw Ramsay. RBS

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