128 A FIRST LIST OF THE 



Legs and feet, plumbeous, or dull horny blue ; claws, plum- 

 beous, horny, brown at tips ; bill, black ; irides, deep brown. 



The male has the lores, the cheeks as far back as the centre 

 of the eye, the chin, the upper throat, and a gradually narrowing 

 streak down the centre of the rest of the throat, velvet black, 

 with a very short, dull violet cobalt mandibular stripe on either 

 side : a band across the forehead over the lores and eye and round 

 the eye, and thence bounding the black of the throat, pale yellow. 

 The rest of the forehead, and the anterior half of the crown and 

 a more or less perceptible extension behind the yellow eye-band 

 to the ear coverts and these latter, pale green, with only a faint 

 yellowish tinge. The occiput, nape, and sides of the neck behind 

 the ear coverts, green, with a strong golden tinge. On the lower 

 part of the throat the pale yellow band is greatly extended, and 

 gradually changes on the upper part of the breast to a golden 

 green like that of the nape. Back scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts, grass green, with more or less of a golden tinge 

 on the upper back, and darker and purer on the rump and 

 upper tail coverts. Central tail feathers, blue green; shafts, brown ; 

 lateral tail feathers, dull blue ; all the feathers, very narrowly 

 margined at the tips with albescent. Inner webs of primaries 

 and secondaries, dark hair brown. Winglet, outer webs of pri- 

 maries, and their greater coverts, bright cerulean blue, greener in 

 some lights, and all slightly tinged greenish toward their tips. 

 Lesser coverts, glistening smalt blue ; median and secondary 

 greater coverts, outer margins of outer webs of secondaries, and 

 visible portions of tertiaries, grass green, with more or less of a 

 golden tinge at times. Inner portions of outer webs of secondaries, 

 blue ; and more or less of a blue green tinge on parts of the inner 

 webs towards their bases. Lower breast, abdomen, sides, flanks, 

 vent, and lower tail coverts, bright grass green. Edge of the wing 

 at carpal joint, blue. Wing lining and greater portion of the 

 lower surface of the quills, except the first two primaries and 

 the tips of the next two or three, pale satin brown. The coverts, 

 faintly tinged with green. The tibial plumes, brown. 



It must be understood that in the head, neck, and back the 

 pale yellow, the green, and the golden, run smoothly into one 

 another without any hard lines of demarcation. 



The female wants the black lores, chin, and throat, the yellow 

 encircling band, and has much less of the golden tinge on the 

 nape and sides of the neck. The tail and wings are much less 

 blue, and the shoulder patch is much smaller in extent, less 

 glistening, and verditer blue. The black in the males is replaced 

 by a slightly bluish green, and the mandibular stripe represented 

 by a small pale bluish green patch. 



The young male seems to be exactly like the female, except 

 that it wants the blue tinffe on the chin an«d the middle of the 



