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froutal pluiuos ; above the eye a spot of green velvety feathers, ap- 

 pearing black in most lights ; sides of head and sides of neck crimson 

 like the back ; entire throat and fore neck rich pnrplish crimson, 

 the lower feathers tipped with orange-buff, forming a band across 

 the fore neck, followed by a small pectoral band of rich metallic 

 green, while from each side of the breast springs a tuft of long 

 plumes ashy brown in colour, tipped with metallic green, each 

 feather with a snbterminal line of buff and a second narrower one 

 of reddish brown ; remainder of under sui'facc, including the under 

 wing- and tail-coverts, pure white ; scapulars and wings crimson, 

 like the back ; the quills orange-brown, externally washed with 

 crimson, the innermost secondaries being entirely of the latter 

 colour ; tail ashy brown, the feathers margined with crimson or 

 orange-red, the whole tail hidden with the long tail-coverts ; two 

 centre feathers elongated into a thread-like wire, with a curved 

 disk of metallic green at the tip. Total length 0-6 inches, culmen 

 0'8, wing 3'75, tail 1"6, middle tail-feathers 6*5, tarsus 1"1. 



Adult female. Dissimilar to the male. General colour above 

 uniform brown, with a slight olive or golden shade, more particu- 

 larly on the head ; least and median wing-coverts uniform with the 

 back ; greater coverts and quills darker brown, externally washed 

 with reddish orange ; tail brown, with a slight golden gloss ; loral 

 plumes, feathers round the eye, sides of face, and tkroat dusky, 

 varied with minute straw-coloured mesial streaks ; rest of under 

 surface pale fulvous, washed with golden buff on the fore neck, all 

 transversely barred wath dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillars rufous obscurely barred with brown, the edge of the wing 

 golden orange. Total length 7'2 inches, wing 3'9, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 1-05. 



Young male. Similar to the adult female at first, but with a dull 

 crimson shade on the wing. When the crimson plumage of the 

 adult is nearly complete the two central feathers of the tail are put 

 on, the shafts being feathered the whole way, and the ends of the 

 feathers having the web entire and ciu-ved round. From the excel- 

 lent series in the Museum it would appear that the curve is gradually 

 continued upon the feather itself, and that when the twist is com- 

 plete the metallic green colour is assumed without a change of feather. 

 One yoitng male before me has one racket brown, the other metallic 

 green. 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



a, 6. Ad. sk. [New Guinea.] Native skins. Purchased. 



c-f. c? and $ ad., c? juv.st. Aru Islands. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



//.* 5 ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R.Wallace, Esq. |C.J. 



h, i. (S juv. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



k.-q. S imm. sk. Aru Islands. Mr. Cockerell [C.]. 



r, s. d $ ad. sk. Mysol. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



^(iad. sk. New Guinea. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



