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primaries. The first quill is scarcely more than two-thirds the fourth, (which is longest,) both 

 measured from the carpal joint. It is more than an inch shorter than the second, which, in 

 urn, is half an inch shorter than the third. Tiie tail is long, but, in the specimen before 

 me, too much mutilated to furnish a satisfactory description. 



The body generally is green, with a yellowish or, perhaps, fulvous shade, especially on the 

 anterior half of the body. The lower parts are rather paler. The wings and tail are of a 

 purer green ; the outer webs of the primaries and the ends of the tail feathers with a bluish 

 shade. The top of the head, with the short occipital crest, are bright blue, most vivid poste- 

 riorly ; anteriorly paler, and on the front and above the eye tinged with greenish yellow. The 

 forehead along the base of the bill, the lores, region around the eye^ and a series of pointed 

 whisker-like feathers below the eye, are black ; the latter margined above and below by greenish 

 blue, like that on the top of the head, and separated from it by the color of the back. The 

 occipital crest is also margined with black. On the middle of the throat are three or four much 

 elongated compact feathers, which are black, with greenish blue margins near the base. The 

 inside of the wing, especially the inner webs of the quills, are strongly tinged with yellowish 

 rufous. 



In life the iris was yellow, the bill black, the feet dark chestnut. 



List of specimens. 



