60 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



from them, among other characters, in the rich yellow mark 

 on the shoulder. 



The male has a band across the forehead, extending above 

 the eye to its posterior angle, of a very pale yellow ; on the 

 centre of the crown a patch of black ; sides of the head, cheeks, 

 neck, throat, upper portion of the abdomen, lower part of the 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts verditer blue, tinged with 

 green on the cheeks and upper tail-coverts ; immediately 

 below the eye a wash of yellow ; back of the neck, back, and 

 scapularies light greyish brown, slightly tinted with green ; 

 shoulder and lesser wing-coverts fine yellow ; primaries and 

 secondaries black, margined externally with blue ; feathers of 

 the lower part of the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 light scarlet, margined with greyish green ; two centre tail- 

 feathers dark green at the base, passing into deep blue 

 towards the extremity, and tipped with dull black; the re- 

 maining tail-feathers light green crossed by an irregular oblique 

 band of dull bluish black, beyond which they become of a 

 paler glaucous green, until they end in white ; but each has a 

 dark stain of bluish green on the outer margin near the tip ; 

 irides brown ; bill and nostrils bluish horn-colour ; feet mealy 

 grey. 



Total length 1 1 inches ; bill f ; wing 4 J ; tail 7 ; tarsi \. 



The female is similar to the male in colour, but all the hues 

 much paler, and the markings much less strongly defined. 



In the young state the whole of the head, all the upper sur- 

 face, wing-coverts, throat, and breast are of a pale glaucous 

 green ; the rump and upper tail-coverts and the tail similar to 

 the same parts in the male, but not so bright ; and the lower 

 part of the abdomen is greyish white, with faint stains of 

 scarlet. 



