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extending up to the lower white stripe, but in the anterior area bounded above 

 and anteriorly by dark metallic green; the orbital region and anterior half of 

 the crest between the white lines metallic reddish purple; forehead, crown and 

 posterior portion of the crest metallic green; terminal portion of the crest, above 

 laterally, and beneath, dark metallic violet; jugulum rich purplish chestnut, 

 with a metallic purple gloss laterally, the front and lower part marked with 

 deltoid spots of white growing larger toward the breast; breast and abdomen 

 immaculate white; sides of the breast with a broad white transverse bar, and a 

 wide black one immediately behind it; sides and Hanks pale fulvous buff, deli- 

 cately undulated with black, the broad feathers forming the upper border each 

 beautifully marked with two black cresceutic bars, inclosing a white one; ci 1s- 

 sum dull black, fading gradually into dull rusty fulvous on the anal region. 

 Back, lesser wing coverts and rnrnp dark slaty brownish, very faintly glossed 

 with bronze, the wing coverts more slaty, the rump much darker, and gradually 

 deepening into black toward the upper tail coverts, which, with the tail, are 

 deep black, the latter with bronze green reflections in certain lights; a some- 

 what ovate patch (pointed posteriorly) of rich dark metallic maroon purple on 

 each side of the rump, immediately behind the flanks: just behind this, the two 

 or three elongated lateral upper tail coverts are marked with a central stripe of 

 deep fulvous, falling gracefully over the sides of the crissum; tertials and pos- 

 terior scapulars intense black, with rich velvety reflections of blue, green and 

 purple (chiefly the lirst), in certain lights; the longest tertials tipped with a 

 wide bar of white, the next black to the end, the third much shorter, much 

 narrower than the rest, pointed, and of a dull greenish bronze color; middle 

 and greater wing coverts steel blue, narrowly tipped with black; secondaries 

 ('speculum') purplish steel blue, narrowly tipped with white, and with a narrow 

 subtenniual black bar; primary coverts slate color; primaries, with the exposed 

 ends of the inner webs, steel blue, the ends of the outer webs grayish or glau- 

 cous white, becoming slate color basally; lining of the wing spotted with slate 

 color and white. Sagittate longitudinal space on the culmen and terminal 

 'nail' of the bill deep polished black; an oblong space of milk white from the 

 nostril to the 'nail;' a line or border of gamboge yellow following the basal 

 outline of the bill; rest of bill dark purplish red, deepening into scarlet just 

 behind the nostril; iris bright orange led; eyelids deep vermilion; legs and feet 

 dull chrome yellow, the webs and joints dusky. Adud female: Feathers border- 

 ing the base of the bill all around, a space on side of the head surrounding the 

 eyes and extending back in a point toward the occuput, chin and whole throat 

 white; remainder of the head plumbeous gray, the crown and slight occipital 

 crest glossed with metallic green; jugulum brownish, the feathers marked cen- 

 trally with fulvous buff, those toward the breast tipped with white; remaining 

 lower parts white, the crissum freckled with dusky grayish, the sides and flanks 

 raw umber brown, spotted with brownish white; back, rump and upper tail 

 coverts hair brown, glossed in certain lights with bronze and reddish purple; 

 tail brightly glossed with greenish bronze; scapulars and tertials olivaceous 

 umber, richly glossed with reddish purple and bronze; wings as in the adult 

 male, but secondaries more widely tipped with white, and the four upper greater 

 coverts rich metallic reddish purple, more bluish in the center, bron/.y toward 

 the edge and base, and narrowly tipped with velvety black: bill dark plum- 



