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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 



