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lower mandible are grooved so as to receive distinctly 
the long separated reed-like teeth; there is also a 
gibbosity in the two mandibles which do hot meet at 
the sides, and this vacuity is occupied by the sifters 
just mentioned. Head and upper half of the neck 
glossy, changeable green ; rest of the neck and _ breast 
white, passing around and nearly meeting above ; whole 
belly, dark reddish chestnut ; flanks a brownish yellow, 
penciled transversely with black, between which and the 
vent, which is black and white, is a band of white ; back 
blackish brown ; exterior edge of the scapulars white ; 
lesser wing coverts and some of the tertials, a fine light 
sky-blue ; beauty spot on the wing a changeable, re- 
splendent, bronze green, bordered above by a band of 
white, and below another of velvety black: rest of the 
wing, dusky: some of the tertials streaked down their 
middles with white ; tail dusky, pointed, broadly edged 
with white ; legs and feet, reddish orange : hind toe 
not finned. 
The female has a crown of dusky brown: rest of the 
head and neck, yellowish white, thickly spotted with 
dark brown ; these spots on the breast become larger 
and crescent shaped. Back and seapulars dark brown ; 
edged and centered with yellow ochre; belly, slightly 
rufous, mixed with white ; wings nearly as in the male. 
