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Bird House at the Loudon Zoo., and are certainly 

 most handsome birds. 



Adult male : The upper surface is glistening 

 greenish-black (steely-blue in some lights), except for 

 a band of white tinged with grey, across the rump ; 

 lesser coverts, glistening greenish black; median, 

 greater and primar}'' wing-coverts, and flights, dull 

 black, edged with glistenin.g greenish black, the inner 

 primaries are white at the base of the outer web, the 

 secondaries are also similarly marked, but the mark- 

 ings are concealed by the greater coverts ; upper tail 

 coverts, glossy greenish black ; tail-feathars, black ; 

 crown of head, glistening glossy black, with a few 

 white spots forming a longitudinal streak down the 

 centre of the crown (this white streak is not constant, 

 and is almost invisible in some specimens) ; lores, 

 eye-region and ear-coverts, throat and sides of neck, 

 glossy black ; cheeks, foreneck, breast, abdomen, sides 

 of body, flanks and under tail-coverts, white ; the 

 foreneck and sides of flanks are regularly scaled or 

 mottled, the feathers of these parts having the bases 

 finely edged with black; beak, black ; legs and feet, 

 blackish ; iris, deep brown. Total length 4J in., 

 tail if in. 



Adult female : Differs entirely from the male, 

 having her upper surface dull olive, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts light olive; wing-coverts, dull olive with 

 pale ends to the median and greater coverts forming a 

 double wing bar ; primaries, flights and tail-feathers, 

 dusky edged with olive ; crown of head, dull olive ; 

 lores, e3'e-region, sides of body, flanks and under tail- 

 coverts, huffish ochre ; ear-coverts, pale olive ; cheeks, 

 throat and foreneck, pale huffish ochre ; breast and 



