12. MX. 75 



Adult male. Head dark glossy green, cheeks purple ; long 

 pendent occipital crest glossy green, purple behind, and bounded 

 above and below by two white lines, the upper one starting from 

 the forehead and passing over the eye, the lower one starting 

 behind the eye ; a broad velvety black patch on the upper part 

 of the sides of the neck ; chin, throat, and upper fore neck white, 

 sending off a branch between the cheeks and the black velvety 

 patch, and another below this on the sides of the neck ; hind neck 

 and mantle dark bronze-green ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 dark bronzy green ; scajjulars dark velvety green, the inner ones more 

 green on the inner web ; lower fore neck and breast glossy chestnut, 

 with triangular white spots at the tips of the feathers of the breast ; 

 on the sides of the breast a white band, edged below with a broader 

 black one ; lower breast and abdomen white ; sides and flanks pale 

 brown, vermiculated witli black, the longer feathers beautifully 

 marked at the tips with black and silky-white bands ; lower Hanks 

 glossy chestnut ; under tail-coverts brown ; lesser wing-coverts 

 bronze-green, the middle and greater ones silky blue, edged with 

 velvety black ; primaries silky grey on the outer web, glossy bluish- 

 green at the tip ; secondaries glossy bluish-green, with a white 

 band at the tip ; inner secondaries or tertials very broad velvety 

 bluish-black, but the one next to the secondaries glossed with 

 coppery red on the outer web ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white, spotted with blackish, the greater ones more grey ; tail above 

 dark velvety green, below dusky : " a longitudinal space on the 

 culmen, and tip of the bill with the nail, black ; an oblong space of 

 milk-white from nostrils to the nail ; a border of gamboge-yellow 

 following the basal outline of the bill ; rest of the bill dark purplish 

 red, deepening into scarlet just behind the nostrils ; iris bright 

 orange-red ; eyelids deep vermilion ; legs and feet dull chrome- 

 yellow, the webs and joints dusky " (liiih/wa;/). Total length about 

 19 inches, wing 9-9-50, tail 5, culmen 1-40, tarsus 1-40. 



Female. Head and neck grey, glossed with green on the upper 

 part of the head and crest ; a space surrounding the eyes, chin and 

 throat white ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bronze-grey ; 

 scapulars and tertials also bronze-grey, but glossed with purple ; 

 breast, sides, and flanks brown-grey, with whitish spots along the 

 middle of the feathers, broader on the sides and flanks ; wings as in 

 the male, but the inner greater wing-coverts glossed with coppery 

 red ; tail above greyish bronzy green, below dusky ; lower breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the bitter finely dotted with 

 brown-grey : " bill dark jdumbeous, the nail and longitudinal space 

 on the cidmen black ; eyelids chrome-yellow ; iris raw sienna ; legs 

 and feet yellowish brown " (i/(V^Y/(('«?/). Total length about 17'75 

 inches, wing 8-50, tail 4-5, culmen l-liO, tarsus r;55. 



Young i)i down. " Above deep hair-brown, darker or dove-brown 

 on the pileum and tail ; a dingy whitish bar along the posterior 

 border of the arm-wing, and a roundisli spot of tlie same on each 

 side of the rump ; lores, superciliary stripe, extending back nearly 



