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brown, paling" towards the tips. The first six primaries have a 

 broad white band on their inner webs at the bases, and a narrow 

 white band almost hidden by the coverts on the outer webs of 

 the second to the seventh. The primaries, tinged on the outer 

 webs, towards the tips, greyish. The secondaries, broadly mar- 

 gined on the outer webs, except just at their bases, with dull 

 blue. The tertiaries, with the whole of the outer webs and tips, 

 have this same color. The first two or three secondaries often exces- 

 sively, narrowly, and irregularly margined towards their tips with 

 white. The primary greater coverts, dark hair brown. The rest 

 of the greater coverts suffused on the outer web, and the later ones 

 more or less on both webs, with much the same dull blue as the 

 secondaries, palest on the earlier ones, and with the exterior webs 

 of these at times excessively narrowly margined with white, in 

 which there are often traces of tiny black spots. The median 

 coverts, a somewhat brighter blue. In some specimens, some 

 of the earlier ones conspicuously barred towards the tips with 

 black and white, and all of them obsoletely barred with paler 

 blue. Lesser wing coverts, hair brown, suffused towards the 

 tips with dull bluish green or dull olive. The cheeks and ear 

 coverts, very pale fulvous white ; many of the feathers excessively 

 narroioly tipped with black. The chin and throat, white or 

 fulvous white ; the feathers on each side, more or less broadly 

 margined at the tips with black, as are some of the feathers in 

 the centre of the chin and throat. The whole of the breast, 

 sides of the neck, sides, flanks and upper abdomen, white, barred 

 with black ; the last bar near the tip of each feather contracted to 

 a spot ; the centre of the breast suffused with a slightly greenish 

 blue ; the other parts with a pale, delicate, somewhat lavender, blue. 

 The lower abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts, dull white or 

 bluish white ; some only of the lower lateral tail coverts more or 

 less strongly tinged blue, and in some specimens barred. The 

 edge of the wing is a dull bluish green, the wing lining mostly 

 hair brown, but with a conspicuous white patch, formed chiefly 

 by the median secondary lower coverts. 



In the females the color of the crest is duller and paler ; the 

 central coronal stripe is less well marked. All the feathers of the 

 back and scapulars are more or less broadly margined with a sort of 

 dull olive green, which, owing to the overlapping of the feathers, 

 is almost the only color seen, the bluer basal portions of the 

 feathers only peeping through here and there. It is with this 

 dull olive green, and not with blue, as in the male, that the 

 secondaries, tertiaries, and coverts generally are suffused. On the 

 lower surface the beautiful lavender blue tinge is wholly want- 

 ing, and in the centre of the breast the somewhat greenish 

 blue tinge of the male is replaced by dull fulvous. In other 

 respects the sexes do not appear to differ. 



