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upper back; rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish olive ; lesser wing-coverts and primary-coverts metallic steel 
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sreater-coverts dark brown with a slight metallic lustre, the feathers being margined 
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blue; median-coverts and 
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on margin; central tail-feathers brown and distinctly glossed with steel blue ; the lateral tail-feathers without the 
eloss, tipped with whitish ; sides of face greyish ; lower surface, including under tail-coverts, yellowish buff; throat 
and centre of breast whiter ; chest and flanks tinged with olive green ; edge of wing, under wing-coverts and axillaries 
white with a slight tinge of yellow; colour of bill and feet as in the adult male. 
Description of the young female: Upper surface dark ashy grey; crown of head distinctly darker, the feathers 
with fringe of indistinctly metallic lustre; rump tinged with olive ; wing-coverts with less metallic lustre than im 
adult female; external olive margin to the first primary indistinct; sides of face and throat ereyish ; middle o: 
breast yellowish buff; chest and flanks tinged with greyish ; under tail-coverts whiter ; basal parts of lower mandible 
and edge of upper mandible distinctly paler than in adult female. In all other respects of colouration the young 
female is similar to the adult of the same sex. 
The young bird of D. formosum is easily distinguished from that of D. minullum wchidai by the upper parts being 
of a dark ashy grey colour instead of dark olive. 
The measurements of D. formosum examined by me are as follow : 
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ONS) | Jan.,1917 8.5mm. | 50.0mim. 26.0mm1. | 11.0mm. > ad. 
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