3, Entrauccs.
4. Twigs, beans, and beetles.
I\Ir. Goodwin's account of the hoivcr of tlio present bird dilFers somewluit from that given above.
The followini; is a description of a pair of adult birds :—•
Adult male. General colour above nniforui dark olive-bronii, rather more olive on the bach, rump, and
upper tail-coverts; wing-coverts like ihe back; hiistard wing, priuiary-covcrts, and quills olive-browu externally,
internally dark brown; tail-fealliers dark brown, washed with olive-brown externally; crown of head
with an inin}ense crcst of orange, the lateral and frontal feathers edged and tipped with blackish brown ; base
of forehead dusky olive-brown ; liind neck ligiiter olive-brown ; lores ashy ; sides of face, eyebrow, and earcoverts
dark olive-brown ; cheeks and entire under surface of body light olive-brown, streaked down the
centre of the feathers with oclireous bulf, the sides of body anil Hanks rather browner; thighs dusky brown ;
under tail-coverts fulvous, witli ochreons-bull' centres to tlic feathers, the long ones edged with dark brown ;
under wing-coverts and axillaries orange-biiir or tawny; quills below dusky, ochrcous along the inner edge.
Total length 8-3 inches, cnbnen 1, wing 5, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-3.
Jiklt female. Dillers from the male in having no orange crest, the head being like the hack. Total
lengtli S-3 inches, enlmen 0'9, wing 4-8, tail 3-3, tarsus 1-4.
Mr. Forbes procured specimens of both sexes, killed in the rainy season. The wliole of the colours are
|ialcr and more olive, and the ochreons tints of the nnder surface are niucli paler, especially on the under
wing-coverts. The male is distinguished from tlie female at tliis season of tile year only by the greater
amount of clear ochreons on the underparts.
The figures In the I'late represent an adult male and female, drawn from a pair procured by Mr. Hunstcin
in the Horseshoe Range.