144 DESTKUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: 



The colour of the bird, as described by Gould, is — 

 " Crown of the head and nape bronzy brown ; over the 

 eye a stripe of dull white ; feathers of the back, wing 

 coverts, upper tail coverts, and two centre tail feathers 

 dark shining green, edged with grey ; wings brown, 

 glossed with green and margined with grey ; outer tail 

 feathers on each side alternately and broadly barred with 

 blackish brown and white ; the three rest on each side 

 rufous chestnut at the base, passing into green towards 

 the extremity, and ending in blackish brown, specked 

 with wdiite ; ear coverts and sides of the neck brown ; 

 under surface buffy white, mottled bars of pale brown on 

 the throat, and strongly barred on the flanks with 

 bronzy brown ; under surface of the shoulder similarly 

 but not so strongly barred." 



