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ages of green, scarlet, yellow and orange. Their range 

 is similar to that of Rhamphaslos, but does not extend 

 so far south. The sexes are similar as to plumage, but 

 some of the species have the plumage of the females 

 much duller than the male, thus making the sexes 

 easily determinable (that is providing the specimens 

 are adult). 



Their beaks are very variable and brilliant in the 

 respective species ranging from 3 to 4iin. 



Their total length varies from la^- to lyin., the 

 majority averaging I3in. Only one species described. 

 P. erythropygia. 



Head, neck, and throat, rich glossy black; wings, 

 olive green with the primaries brown ; tail, olive green, 

 much ligliter on the underside ; breast, rich yellow, 

 much flecked with red, and crossed with a band of 

 black, also flecked with red ; thighs, chestnut ; rump, 

 scarlet ; bill, creamy, yellow at the tip, red at base and 

 black along the edge of upper mandible; the lower 

 mandible is blackish at the tip ; bare skin round eyes, 

 red shaded with blue ; iris, pale yellow, pupil dark 

 green ; legs and feet, olive. Total length i6in., bill 

 4in., tail 6Jin. 



" This species varies much as to plumage and in the size of their bills, 

 in both sexes."— ^. Goodfellow. 



Seleniderea. 



This genus is of slighter build than Pteroglossus, 

 and all the species are strikingly similar as to plumage, 

 but may be readily distinguished by the marked dis- 

 similarity of their strangely marked bills. 



Their total length varies from I2jin. to I4in. ; that 

 of bill ranging from 2jin. to sJin. 



Their range is (according to B.M.C.) confined to 



