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ill a light reflected at a small angle, but otherwise purple ; 

 the throat brownish-black. Between the lateral basal sinus 

 of the upper mandible and the cheek is an ovate patch of 

 white, an inch in its greatest diameter, and ten-tAvelfths 

 across. The lower neck all round, the breast, fore part of the 

 abdomen, sides, and lower tail-coverts white ; but the axillar 

 feathers and lower wing-coverts are blackish-brown, and the 

 edges of the posterior elongated feathers on the sides black. 

 The back, and the inner and posterior scapulars, are black ; 

 the outer scapulars white, with the margins black. The tail 

 is deep brown tinged with grey ; the sides of the rump and 

 tibiae dusky-grey, and the feathers on the hind part of the 

 abdomen dusky at the base. The wing may be described as 

 brownish-black, with a large patch of white, which includes 

 many of the small coverts, several of the secondary coverts, 

 and eight of the secondary quills. These white secondary 

 coverts have their basal half black, but that colour is not 

 apparent when the feathers are laid. 



The mouth is of moderate width ; the anterior palate 

 concave ; the lateral lamellse broad, depressed, tapering out- 

 wards to a point. The tongue, an inch and a half in length, 

 and half an inch in breadth, is fleshy, w^ith a double row of 

 conical papillse at its base, a deep broad medial groove, the 

 edges thin, posteriorly serrate, anteriorly lamellate, the free 

 part beneath broad, soft, and flattened, with a medial and 

 two lateral prominent lines, the tip thin, cartilaginous, semi- 

 circular. The space between the base of the tongue and the 

 glottis, the edges, and a space on each side of the latter, as 

 well as a large pad behind, divided by a deep groove, covered 

 with conical horny papillae, directed backwards. The oeso- 

 phagus eleven inches long, ten-twelfths wide at the com- 

 mencement, contracts to eight-twelfths, and, in entering the 

 thorax to half an inch, then enlarges a little. Its walls are 

 thick, and the proventriculus, which is an inch and a half 

 long, has its glandules cylindrical or oblong. The stomach 

 is large, transversely elliptical, little compressed, two inches 

 two-twelfths in breadth, an inch and a half in length, placed 

 obliquely, with very large muscles, three fourths of an inch 

 in tliickness, large tendons, a dense middle coat, and thick, 



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