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The third is a most beautifully perfect specimen 

 of the adult male in full plumage. The ground co- 

 lour of the upper plumage, which was light brown 

 before, is now of a uniformly deep velvet-black ; 

 the wings and tail being snuff-coloured, or of a 

 cinnamon-brown : the crown is covered by an oval 

 patch of shining emerald-green ; and there is a si- 

 milar one on the chin and base of the lower mandi- 

 ble, which leaves the ears and sides of the head 

 black : the fore-neck, down to about the middle of 

 the body, is rich scarlet, crossed with lines of steel- 

 blue, reflecting purple and violet : these lines are 

 more crowded on the throat, and seem gradually to 

 become more indistinct where the crimson termi- 

 nates : in some lights the throat is so glossed with 

 purple, that the crimson is hardly seen : the lower 

 part of the body, and the whole of the remaining 

 under plumage, is of the same velvetty -black as the 

 upper parts : the lesser wing-covers are blackish- 

 brown : the tail is even, and the third quill is the 

 largest. 



Total length, 5 inches ; bill almost 1 ; wings, 

 2 ; tail beyond, ^ ; ditto, from the base, 2 ; tar- 

 sus, T v 



