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having, as it were, a piece cut out from the tip of 

 each in the form of a V. Beyond the 

 breast is a band of pale green, succeeded 

 by a small spot of rose-lilac in the 

 middle of the belly, which passes into a 

 rich orange, that again by degrees fades 

 into a pure yellow, which occupies the 

 vent or lower part of the abdomen. The flanks and 

 sides are pale-green ; the under tail-coverts rich orange. 

 The upper plumage is of a rich and glossy parrot- 

 green ; the scapulars with their central part of a deep 

 purple or blue, according to the light in which they 

 are viewed : the wing-coverts and secondaries are 

 margined with yellow. Greater quills, with their 

 anterior webs, black, glossed with green, the base of 

 the exterior webs green, finely margined with pale 

 yellow ; first quill, with the tip, for nearly an inch in 

 length, is suddenly narrowed, in the form represented 

 in the wood cut. Tail of fourteen feathers, even at 

 the end ; the exterior webs green, the inner blackish- 

 green. The tips of all, except the two central fea- 

 thers, which are wholly green, with a broad band of 

 rich yellow. The tarsi are covered nearly to the di- 

 vision of the toes, with soft thick-set yellowish-green 

 feathers. The soles of the feet are broad and flat ; 

 the claws hooked and strong, the exterior toe longer 

 than the inner. 



This species, as the structure of the feet so evi- 

 dently implies, is the constant inhabitant of wooded 

 districts, where it subsists upon various fruits and 



