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glancing bluisli and greenish ; towards the belly terminating 

 in a well-defined broad blue cross band^ and on the sides 

 passing into the ultramarine of the ornamental plumes. 

 Belly shining satiny black. Under wing-coverts brownish 

 mixed with dark grey. Axillaries exteriorly brownish^ in- 

 teriorly bluish green. Under surface of the wings blackish 

 grey^ with brighter inner edgings on the primaries and 

 bluish on the secondaries. The ornamental plumes are 

 divided into two portions : the larger outer ones are rather 

 rigid, and on the underside are bright ultramarine blue at 

 their bases and pass into lilac ; on their upper sides, i. e. on 

 the hinder sides, they are shining brown ; the shafts of 

 these feathers above at their bases are white, with the end 

 half brown, below they are entirely bright brown. The 

 smaller inner ornamental plumes, which are in part strongly 

 curved inwards, are bright blue at their base, in the middle 

 portion ultramarine or cobalt-blue, passing towards the 

 apices into bright greenish blue; upon the smaller orna- 

 mental plumes lie as coverts a row of shortened chestnut- 

 brown feathers strongly curved, and upon part of them 

 another row of black feathers. The tail is blue above with 

 brighter edgings, and dirty greenish at the base ; below it is 

 uniform bright blue. The two lengthened middle tail- 

 feathers carry at their bases brownish webs on a white shaft ; 

 at the end of the other tail-feathers these webs disappear 

 almost entirely, and then again gradually increase to a 

 breadth of half a centimetre the two together ; the spatula- 

 shaped tips are about 7 millim. in diameter ; the colour of 

 these feathers is above black changing to violet ; below black, 

 with a light bright blue spot at the tip ; the shafts are black 

 both above and below. The bill is yellowish white ; the feet 

 (in the dried skin) brownish horn- colour; the iris (according 

 to Hunstein's information) is brown. 



Female. Flank-feathers loose and lengthened, on their 

 inner sides greenish blue; belly rusty reddish with dark 

 cross bands ; the feathers on their undersides bluish green. 

 Tail beneath with lightly marked sliadings, which disappear 

 towards the tail-end. Thighs black. Feathers of the upper 



