PLOCEUS MARI Q U I N S I S .
A ves.— P late C I I I .
P. capite, cervice, dorso, pectore, ventre uropygioque flavis; interscapuliis subbrunneis flavo-viridi-mar-
ginatis; remigibus brunneo-rubris flavo-marginatis; rostro pedibusque pallide flavo-brunneis cameo-
tinctis.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 3 unc. 7 lin.; caudee 2 unc. 4 lin.
CoLOUR.^The upper and lateral parts of the head, and the back and sides
of the neck, gamboge-yellow, faintly tinted with green and variegated with
umber-brown streaks—each feather having one of these in the course of
the shaft. Interscapulars umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with a
yellow of the same character as that of the head. Back, rump, and upper
tail coverts yellow like the head, the latter verging to lemon-yellow. The
lesser wing coverts brownish red, edged with lemon-yellow ; the primary and
secondary quill coverts, and the primary and secondary quill feathers, brownish
red, the two first edged and tipped with yellowish white, the other two margined
externally with lemon-yellow. Breast, belly, and vent intermediate
between gamboge and lemon-yellow. Tail feathers broccoli-brown, washed
with lemon-yellow, and edged with the latter colour. The upper mandible
intermediate between hyacinth-red and yellowish brown; the lower intermediate
between wood-brown and flesh-red; the toes and claws intermediate
between yellowish brown and flesh-red.
In young birds the yellow, where it exists, is less deep, and on them it
appears only very sparingly on the interscapulars and under parts of the
body.
F orm, &c.— Figure rather slender. Head small; bill rather strong, particularly
at the base, conical, and pointed, the culmen enters slightly between
the feathers of the forehead; nostrils small, triangular, and placed near to
the base of bill, immediately on the side of culmen. Wings short, rounded,
and when folded reach to about the commencement of the second third of the