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Mr. Reginald Phieeipps,



did not sex, or could not because too immature ; (3) My im¬

mature male ; (4) My female ; (5) My adult male.


Here I may mention that, in all the living specimens I

saw, the under parts were lighter and of a yellowish green ; a

conspicuous white orbital ring, round in front but pointed behind,

perhaps less so and rounder in the female than in the male ; feet

and claws whitish ; and cere white, narrow in the immature bird

with the nostrils hidden, deeper in the adult with the nostrils left

fully exposed by the receding feathers of the forehead.


Adult male: —Generally as per type, but in a good light

with the green above flecked with blue, while below it is yellow-

green, with washes of yellow on flanks, and with the ventral

region yellowish ; the “olive” of the type is more than a tinge,

and extends at least half way down the sides of the neck, where

it meets and partly envelops the ends of the patch of salmon-

red ; the latter is more conspicuous than is suggested by the

description, and is inclined to salmon-pink ; the sienna-brown

occupies rather more of the crown than the front half, and meets

the deep blackish-brown (perhaps quite black below) of ear-coverts

and upper face opposite to the hind and front corners of the eye

—in my other specimens, the colours intermingle at these points,

especially in the front. Quills—above, inner webs black or nearly

so, outer green ; below, with a good deal of blue wash on the

secondaries. Edge of wing green, with a nearly parallel stripe of

blackish on the under coverts; larger under wing-coverts clear

light blue-gray. Upper aspect of tail as usually carried, green

at base, then a broad wash or shade of dark green, tips lighter ;

the tip of every feather fades into a light blue-green wash, almost

white at the point; central pair of feathers green with sub¬

terminal wash of darker ; four lateral feathers with a broad patch

of red (? light or yellow vermilion) near base, each patch being

encompassed by a narrow baud of light green ; then some blue

wash, succeeded by the usual patch of black ; then blue again,

and more of it, but too ill-defined to be called a patch ; then the

light tip. The outer pair shew red and black, perhaps as in

female, but I have the note “ outer web blue.” The general view

of the outspread tail of this bird, below as well as above, reveals

considerably more blue and bluish than I have mentioned—it



