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middle of the back is black glossed with 

 purple, the long feathers on the sides of 

 the back black glossed with green, the 

 outer webs of all the feathers rich buff, 

 forming two broad stripes for the whole 

 length of the body. The scapulars are 

 black glossed with green, margined and 

 irregularly barred with rufous buff. The 

 lower back and the rump are black, many 

 of the feathers with narrow white margins. 

 The upper tail-coverts and the tail-feathers 

 are black with broad buff margins, and 

 some of the former have the whole outer 

 web buff. The lesser and median upper 

 wing-coverts are black, margined with 

 pale rufous. The greater coverts and the 

 primary coverts are black with whitish 

 tips. The primaries are black with very 

 narrow white tips, the base of the outer 

 web of the first dull whitish. The outer 

 secondaries are black with broad white 

 tips, the ends of the two webs of each 

 feather obliquely cut and forming a point. 

 The long inner secondaries are richly 

 marked with black and buff. 



The throat is dull white, mottled with 

 brown. The foreneck, the breast and 

 the sides of the body are dull rufous, 

 streaked with brown. The whole abdo- 

 men is white, and the under tail-coverts 



