310 lewis' AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



black lies between tbe nostrils, reacbing nearly to the tip, wbicb 

 is also of the same color, and furnished with a large hooked 

 nail; irides orange red; front, crown, and pendent crest rich 

 glossy bronze green, ending in violet, elegantly marked with a 

 line of pure white running from the upper mandible over the 

 e3^e, and with another band of white proceeding from behind the 

 eye, both mingling their long, pendent plumes with the green 

 and violet ones, producing a rich effect; cheeks and sides of the 

 upper neck violet; chin, throat, and collar round the neck pure 

 white, curving up in the form of a crescent nearly to the poste- 

 rior part of the eye; the white collar is bounded below with 

 black; breast dark violet brown, marked on the forepart with 

 minute triangular spots of white, increasing in size until they 

 spread into the white of the belly; each side of the breast is 

 bounded by a large crescent of white, and that again by a broader 

 one of deep black; sides, under the wings, thickly and beauti- 

 fully marked with fine undulating parallel lines of black, on a 

 ground of yellowish-drab; the flanks are ornamented with 

 broad, alternate, semicircular bands of black and white; sides 

 of the vent rich light violet; tail-coverts long, of a hair-like 

 texture at the sides, over v.'hich they descend, and of a deep 

 black, glossed with green ; back duskj^-bronze, reflecting green ; 

 scapulars black; tail tapering, dark glossy green above; below 

 dusky; primaries dusky, silvery hoary without, tipped with 

 violet blue; secondaries greenish-blue, tipped with white; wing- 

 coverts violet blue, tipped with black; vent dusky; legs and 

 feet yellowish- red; claws strong and hooked. 



"The female has the head slightly crested; crown, dark 

 purple; behind the e_ye, a bar of white; chin and throat, for two 

 inches, also white ; head and neck, dark drab; breast, dusky 

 brown, marked with large triangular spots of white; back, dark, 

 glossy, bronze-brown, with some gold and greenish reflections ; 

 speculum of the wings nearly the same as in the male, but the 

 fine pencilling of the sides, and the long hair-like tail-coverts 

 are wanting; the tail is also shorter." 



