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much less curved, as seen by the outline here 

 given of both. 



It is also four-tenths of an inch shorter : the whole 

 of the upper mandible is deep black, except the ba- 

 sal margins, just at the rictus and the base of the 

 culmen; which parts are bright red, without any 

 appearance of this colour having extended further : 

 the under mandible is black for about one-half its 

 length, and red at the basal half; in the young 

 bird the bill is entirely black, with the margins 

 only of the gape red : the ground colour of the 

 whole plumage, in the adult, is deep black, richly 

 glossed with purple-blue on the chin, throat, upper 

 neck, and wing-covers : in all the other parts of the 

 plumage, which is glossy, the colour is dark green- 

 ish-blue, without any of that golden, or coppery- 

 green, seen in P. erythrorynchos : the rump, belly, 

 and under tail-covers, are deep black, and not 

 glossy : two-thirds of the spurious quills are covered 

 with a large oval white spot : the three first quills 

 have a similar spot in the middle of their inner 

 webs : but on the six next quills, the white spot 



