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A ndig en a lam m iroslris. 



Prevailing colour, niauve-blue, which is lighter 

 and richer in hue round the neck ; head and nape, 

 glossy black ; wings and back, bright chestnut-brown ; 

 rump, primrose yellow; flanks, orange; vent and 

 thighs, chestnut; tail, slaty blue, tipped with pale 

 olive ; bill, black, merging into bright red at the base, 

 with a square white basal plate on each side of the 

 maxilla. Total length lyfin., bill 3Jin., tail 6Jin. 



A. hypoglauais. Upper surface, dark green ; rump, 

 yellow ; thighs, chestnut ; ventral region, scarlet ; top 

 of head, black ; bill, mostly yellow, with the culmen 

 and part of sides of upper mandible red, with a broad 

 black band near the base, which is also the colour of 

 the end of the lower mandible. Total length lyjin., 

 bill 4in., tail jin. 



A. 7iigrirostris. Upper surface, olive with a brown- 

 ish sheen ; top of head and nape, black ; throat, 

 white; undeiparts, pale blue; thighs, chestnut; vent- 

 ral region, scarlet; bill, black. Total length lyin. 



A. spilorhyiichus. May be distinguished from 

 nigrirostris by a red patch at base of mandibles, more 

 suffused with the black on the upper mandible. 



A. aicidlatns. Upper surface, green, washed with 

 brown; top of head, black; ventral region, scarlet; 

 thighs, brown ; other parts, bluish grey ; bill, yellow, 

 strongly suffused with green, black at the tip and also 

 at base of lower mandible. Total length r5Jin., bill, 

 3in., tail 6Jin. 



Pteroglossus. 



This genus is the most brilliant and varied of the 

 Rhamphastidce, mostly with beautifully varied plum- 



