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green, but paler or greyer beneath : wings purplish- 

 brown ; tail of the same, but the outsides of the fea- 

 thers golden-green, appearing of that colour when 

 closed ; each of the two outside feathers tipped with 

 white." 



The modern plates agree with this description, 

 except that there is no trace of the black line be- 

 neath the blue of the head. But Temminck says 

 that the females only are distinguished by this mark. 

 The tail is very strongly wedge-shaped, instead of 

 the form assumed by the three we have just now 

 described. This species is a native of the Antilles 

 the island of Trinite. 



