bill, blackish brown, reddish at the base: from the lower 

 corner of it proceeds a streak of bluish green, joining to that 

 colour on the back, also a dusky streak to the eye; iris, reddish 

 lia/.el: behind each eye is a patch of light orange brown, 

 succeeded by a white one. Forehead, on the sides rufous, 

 the commencement of the same colour behind the eye; crown, 

 deep olive green, the feathers tipped with light green; the 

 neck has a patch of green down the sides, in front of the 

 patches behind the eye; nape, as the head; chin and throat, 

 yellowish white; breast, orange brown, with a sprinkling of 

 green by the shoulder of the wing; upper part of the back, 

 :i; down the back is a list of greenish blue, varying in 



,it lights. 



Greater and lesser wing coverts, deep greenish blue, mar- 

 gined with a paler shade, forming spots; primaries, brownish 

 U'ed with olive green; secondaries, the same; greater 

 and lesser under wing coverts, pale chesnut. Tail, greenish 

 blue, the shafts black or dusky; underneath, brownish black, 

 d with olive green; under tail coverts, light orange brown; 

 . very short and pale red, with a tinge of yellowish brown; 



and claws, the same. 



The female is less vivid in all her colours, and the white 

 on the side of the neck is also more subdued: the bill is 



> long as in the male. 



The young have the bill wholly black; iris, darker than in 

 the old bird. 



