248 ANIMALS IN 3IENAGERIES. 



We shall now make an effort, assisted by the annexed 

 figure, to give an adequate idea of the extreme beauty 

 of the plumage. The crown of the head is occupied by 

 a patch of deep brown, which begins at the front, and 

 terminates in a point at the hind head : the ground 

 colour of the sides of the head, chin, and part of the 

 throat, is of a delicate nankeen yellow, having a narrow 

 transverse band of velvet-black from the eye to the 

 middle of the chin, which is also black : a large crescent- 

 shaped spot of bright green then begins behind the eye, 

 and makes a curve half way down the throat, w^here it 

 changes into velvet-black, and ends in a point ; this is 

 separated from the brown patch on the crown by another 

 band of pure white on each side of the head, which 

 almost meet on the hind head, and then becomes sud- 

 denly broader, but still forming a margin to the green : 

 all the rest of the throat and breast is vinaceous red, 

 varied with small round black spots, one at the tip of 

 each feather : this red is blended, on the sides of the 

 neck and breast, into an undefined band of light grey 

 (undulated with delicate blackish lines), which also ex- 

 tends to the shoulder covers : the sides and flanks of the 

 body are also of the same colour, and similarly marked : 

 the middle of the neck above, the whole of the back, 

 rump, and upper tail covers, are rather light, or hair 

 brown : lesser scapulars and lesser wing covers the same ; 

 but the tips of the latter are ferruginous, and form the 

 anterior side of the mirror, or wing-spot : this mirror oc- 

 cupies the whole of the greater wing covers, and is black, 

 glossed at the base with a beautiful green, and margined 

 towards the quills with white : the long scapulars are 

 narrow and pointed, black in the middle, ferruginous on 

 the outside, and white on the middle margin : the terminal 

 under tail covers are velvet-black, with a white band on 

 each side the base of the tail ; the lesser tail covers being 

 pale yellowish white : the quills and tail are nearly the 

 colour of the back ; but some of the secondaries, just 

 above the mirror, have white and black stripes : bill and 

 feet dark lead-colour. 



