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long as the tail ; the first quill is almost equal with 

 the second and third, which are the longest ; these 

 three are very much sinuated, or rather angulated, 

 on their inner web, in a manner it is difficult to ex- 

 plain by words, and wholly unlike any other bird 

 with which we are acquainted : the tail-feathers are 

 truncate, but the shaft mucronate. There is an ex- 

 quisite figure of the male, and a very good one of 

 the female, in Le Yaillant's beautiful work. 



General colour above green, very bright on the 

 back, rump, and tail-covers, but brownish in the 

 wings. The whole of the head is covered with a 

 cap of cinereous grey, dark above and pale beneath ; 

 the neck above and below is rich green, and this 

 colour is continued in a peaked stripe a little way 

 down the middle of the breast ; the breast, body, 

 and all the under plumage is bright orange-yellow 

 but the thighs are green ; wings and tail, blackish, 

 margined with green ; bill and feet black ; nostrils 

 naked, large, round ; cere large. 



Total length, about 9 inches ; bill, ^ ; wings, 6 ; 

 tail, from the base, 3. 



YOL. TIII. :M 



