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near the tip. The longer, outer scapulars 

 are blue on the outer web, partly black 

 and partly white on the inner. The rump 

 and upper tail-coverts are deep black. 

 The two middle tail-feathers are dark 

 brown ; the others white, with some 

 brown along the shaft. The primaries 

 are drab on the inner web, with a black 

 tip; entirely dark brown on the outer 

 web; the shafts white. The first two 

 secondaries are black; the other outer 

 secondaries are metallic green on the 

 outer, black on the inner, web. The 

 inner secondaries are black, all but the 

 innermost, with a white streak at the tip. 

 The upper wing-coverts are blue, the 

 lower series broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a band above the speculum. 



Younger males have the white scapulars 

 vermiculated and margined with brown, 

 and many of the white feathers of the 

 mantle mottled with brown. 



Males approaching maturity have the 

 forehead and crown black, but otherwise 

 the head and the neck resemble the same 

 parts in the female. The mantle is entirely 

 brown ; and the white sides of the breast 

 are variegated with black and fulvous bars. 

 The sides of the body are coarsely barred, 

 not finely vermiculated, with .black. In 



