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In the adult male the beak is of a whitish horn colour, 

 rather darker at the base ; the eyes surrounded with a naked 

 skin of a bright scarlet colour, speckled with a bluish black ; 

 the irides hazel ; the head, and the neck all round, steel blue, 

 reflecting brown, green, and purple, in different lights ; ear- 

 coverts dark brown ; feathers of the upper part of the back 

 orange red, tipped with velvet black ; back and scapulars 

 orange red, the centre of each feather dark brown, with an 

 outer band of straw yellow ; saddle hackle feathers, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, light brownish red ; wing- coverts of 

 two shades of red ; quill-feathers dull greyish brown, varied 

 with pale wood brown ; tail-feathers very long, pale yellow 

 brown, with narrow transverse black bars about one inch 

 apart ; breast and belly golden red ; each feather margined 

 with velvet black, and reflecting tints of gold and purple ; 



