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the neck pale blue, the feathers edged with dark grey. Back brownish- 

 grey, as are the upper tail-coverts and two middle tail-feathers. Alula 

 brownish-black, as are the ends of the primary-coverts, of which the bases 

 are deep red ; primaries deep red, broadly margined externally, and tip- 

 ped with dusky brown. Secondary quills and their coverts pale grey, 

 tinged with red ; the smaller coverts and scapulars of a reddish colour 

 like that of the breast, and shewing oblong black spots glossed with pur- 

 plish blue and green. Lower wing-coverts and under surface of the 

 wings deep red ; lower tail-coverts brownish-grey, tipped with white. 

 Tail-feathers grey at the base, bluish-black towards the end, more or less 

 tipped with grey, the outermost with a touch of white on its outer edge 

 at the tip. 



Length 6| inches, extent of wings 11 ; biU along the back j^^, along 

 the edge ^^ ; tarsus /^. 



Adult Female. Plate CLXXXII. Fig. 4. 



The female is paler in the tints, the colour above being light brownish- 

 grey, the lower parts much lighter, the throat-feathers broadly margined 

 with dull white. The forehead and wing-coverts are but slightly tinged 

 with red, and the hind neck is less blue than in the male. 



Length 6^ inches. 



Young Bird. Plate CLXXXII. Fig. 5. 

 The young resembles the female. 



The Wild Orange. 



Citrus aurantium, Linn. 



You will find all that I know respecting this tree at pages 260 and 360 

 of the present volume. 



