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the mouth a spot of similar color; neck long and 
slender; speculum bright purple, with reflecting 
deep green bordered with black; the feathers 
broadly tipped with white; tail long and pointed. 
Adult male with head, cheeks, throat, upper parts 
of the neck in front and sides, dark brown; a band 
of light purple behind the eye, extending about 
three inches on the sides of the neck; on the hind 
neck a band of black, with green reflections, fading 
as it extends on the back—a band of white com- 
mencing between the two former, passing down 
the neck on the lower part of the fore neck; breast 
and fore part of the abdomen white, tinged with 
pale yellow—hind part of the abdomen and vent 
greyish-white tinged with yellow, and marked with 
undulated lines of brown or dusky; at the base of 
the tail a patch of black; under tail-coverts black, 
margined with whitish; two middle feathers black, 
with green reflections, narrow, and about three 
inches longer than the rest, which are rather long 
and tapering ; upper tail-coverts ash-grey, margined 
with yellowish-white, with a central streak of 
dusky. Rump greyish-brown, marked with undulat- 
ing lines of white; sides of the rump cream color; 
sides of the body, back, and sides of the breast, 
marked with undulating lines of black and white. 
Primaries brown; shafts brownish-white, darker at 
their tips; secondaries and scapulars black, with 
green reflections, the former margined with grey, 
which is the color of the greater part of the outer 
web, the latter margined with white; speculum 
