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The feathers of the lower eyelid are bluish green or green- 

 ish blue. 



In the perfectly adult female the forehead (excepting always 

 the greenish blue line) and the entire lores are concolorous 

 with the throat. The peach bloom behind this does not 

 extend so far back on the crown as it does in the male. The 

 feathers of the lower eyelid are green, unicolorous with the 

 back, and the eye stripe is entirely wanting or at most in 

 some few exceptional cases just indicated. 



As for the black on the tails, as an average, the band is 

 undoubtedly less wide in females than males, but the birds 

 cannot be discriminated by this, as one or two of the females 

 have the bands comparatively broad, and one or tw o of the 

 males have this narrow. 



As regards the throat band, as a rule, the females have this 

 somewhat narrower, paler, more scarlet and less tinged with 

 crimson than the males, but neither is this a certain diagnosis, 

 as some females and males can be selected out of a very large 

 series which hardly differ in this respect. 



The nearly adult male (except as regards the size of bill) pre- 

 cisely resembles the female ; gradually the feathers of the 

 lower lid become bluish, the peach bloom begins to mottle, the 

 scarlet of the forehead and the bluish peach bloom stripe from 

 the front of the eye begins to show out. 



The young birds of both sexes are entirely green, and of a 

 darker and different green to that of the adults. 



The Marquis of Tweeddale remarks that he has one speci- 

 men in the plain green dress with one small frontal plume 

 pink. This is most remarkable, because in the normal stages of 

 plumage no pink shows itself on the forehead until after the 

 whole forehead has become scarlet. 



The following are further dimensions of this species : — 



Males.— Length, 1275 to 18-4 ; expanse, 17 to 18-25; tail, 

 5*05 to 5 - 5 ; wing, 5* to 5-5 ; tarsus, 0*55 to 0'62 ; bill from 

 gape, 2-34 to 2-55; at front, 2-2 to 2*39; weight, 3 to 3-25 

 ozs. 



Females.— Length, 1225 to 12-75; expanse, 17 to 17*25; 

 tail, 46 to 5-0; wing, 4-82 to 5-3; tarsus, 0-55 to 0*65; bill 

 from gape, 2 to 2*37; at front, 2- to 215; weight, 2-5 to 3 

 ozs. 



Legs aud feet pale green, often dingy, sometimes bluish ; bill 

 black, whitey brown at base from nostril to gape of upper 

 mandible, and lower mandible from about angle of gonys to 

 base ; irides bright yellow to orange yellow ; eyelids dark plum- 

 beous green. 



I may add to what I said above that the abdomen, vent, and 

 lower tail-coverts are white, tinged with green, but the whole 



