. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. U TIMEI, Crinin:er sci-icca, Blijlh, Ibis, ISOo p. 48 {ex Miiller in Mas. Liigd.). Criniger viiidis, Gnti/, IIand-1. B. i. p. 27o, no. 40o0. Criniger criniger, Grnii, Ihind-l. B. i. p. 275, no. 4052. Brachypus criniger, Waldcn, Ihii, 1872, p. ;578. Triehole.«>tes minutus, 8(dmd. Ucc. Born. p. 205, tav. v. fig. 1; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 14; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 257. Tricholestes criniger, Tioeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 306; Ilione ^- Davison, Str. F. 1878, p.';J04; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 02, 98. Adult male. General colour above dull yellowish o
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. U TIMEI, Crinin:er sci-icca, Blijlh, Ibis, ISOo p. 48 {ex Miiller in Mas. Liigd.). Criniger viiidis, Gnti/, IIand-1. B. i. p. 27o, no. 40o0. Criniger criniger, Grnii, Ihind-l. B. i. p. 275, no. 4052. Brachypus criniger, Waldcn, Ihii, 1872, p. ;578. Triehole.«>tes minutus, 8(dmd. Ucc. Born. p. 205, tav. v. fig. 1; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 14; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 257. Tricholestes criniger, Tioeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 306; Ilione ^- Davison, Str. F. 1878, p.';J04; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 02, 98. Adult male. General colour above dull yellowish olive, with remarkable long black hairs on the hind neck and mantle; wing-. Outline of Tricholestes criniger, to show long bristles on tlie back. coverts brown, washed with the same colour as the back; quills brown, externally olive-brown, contrasting with the rest of the â wing ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers fawn-brown, or slightly rufous-brown, marked with yellowish olive on their margins, the outer tail-feathers tipped with pale yellow on the inner web ; crown of head light brown, contrasting with the back ; lores, feathers above and below the eye, and sides of face light yellow; under surface of body light yellow, whitish on the throat, the breast somewhat mottled with green, the feathers being edged with this colour, the flanks washed with olive; under wing-coverts light yellow, the greater series whitish; under surface of quills brown, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web; " bill pale leaden ; legs and feet light yeUow-brown ; iris pale sepia-brown " (yl. Everett): " the legs and feet are pale bluish, or pinkish brown, or salmon fleshy; claws pale plumbeous blue ; lower mandible and edge of upper mandilde pale plumbeoiis ; ridge of culmen and tip of upper man- dible black ; ridge of upper mandible dark plumbeous, sometimes a horny brown ; irides varying from a pale umber or snuffy brown to dark brown " {Hume). Total length 5'S inches, c
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