290 Mr. G. N. Lawrence on 



of throat grey, tinged with rufous j the throat-feathers have 

 their ends rounded, and each feather has a submarginal 

 brownish black mark shaped like the letter U, which con- 

 forms to the shape of the feather j there is an inner mark some- 

 what similar in shape at the base of the feather ; on the sides 

 of the neck the dark colour is washed with greenish; the 

 pectoral band is formed by three rows of feathers ending 

 with blue-black, in addition to the two black marks on each 

 feather, all the other throat-feathers having grey margins; 

 breast and abdomen brownish ash, sides of the breast more 

 brown, with darker brownish bars; the flank-feathers are 

 dark rufous ; the vent dark purplish brown ; thighs light dull 

 rufous obscurely barred with brownish ; the feathers of the 

 front and crown are grey washed with rufous, each having a 

 black bar at the base and at the end, this dark colour increas- 

 ing towards the hind head, where it covers the entire ends of 

 the elongated feathers, forming the blue-black crest; the 

 feathers on the sides of the head, on the occiput and upper 

 hind neck, are marked much as on those of the front and 

 crown; lower part of hind neck and wing-coverts bluish 

 green; back, tertiaries, and upper tail-coverts light bronzy 

 green ; two central tail-feathers violet-purple ending with 

 green, the next pair dark green on the inner webs, the outer 

 webs like the central feathers, the other feathers are pur- 

 plish black, more or less green on the outer webs ; the outer 

 primaries are blackish purple, with their outer margins lightly 

 tinged with green, the margins of the inner primaries are more 

 green ; the innermost secondaries are entirely dark green ; 

 some of the wing-coverts are edged with grey; the tarsi 

 and toes appear to have been dark plumbeous, claws pale yel- 

 lowish. Wing 6| inches ; tail 10£ ; bill from front If, from 

 gape 2\, high at base \\, wide at base j|, wide at nostrils \ ; 

 tarsus 2 j. 



Hab. " Rio Jazoaripe, Province of Bahia, Brasil." 

 Mus. Amer. of Nat. Hist. Central Park, New York ; from 

 the Maximilian Collection. 



This example is apparently adult, and agrees well with 

 Temminek's plate (PI. Col. 7). 



