DuscriPrion. 
BE Es BAG Re 
ending in a point; beneath this a ftreak of pale blu¢: chin orange 
yellow: on the throat a triangular patch of black ; from thence to 
the belly, the parts are yellow, but the belly itfelf, the thighs, and 
vent are blueifh white: the back part of the neck and wing coverts 
are green: back mixed green and brownifh orange ; lower part of it © 
and rump blue: the middle part of the wing has fome fertes of fea- 
thers green, with fulvous margins, and others wholly fulvous: quills 
green outwardly and black within; the fecond quills edged with 
yellow: the two middle tail feathers prolonged to double the length 
of the others, as in feveral of the genus, the additional part being 
very narrow, and furnifhed with very flender webs, the colour of them 
blue; the other feathers of the tail chefnut. 
This is faid to be the male bird ; I met with it in the colleGtion of 
General Devies. In Mr. Lambert’s collection of drawings, I obferved 
one of thefe which I fufpe&t to be the other fex. In this the fore- 
head to the middle of the crown is blue, the nape only being dull 
orange, which laft colowmseifo occupies the chin: the black throug! 
the eye, the blue beneath, and patch on the throat, the fame as in 
the other; the back brownifh green: rump blue: the two middle 
tail feathers as in the other: the reft black: the wing coverts like the 
back; the reft of the wing varied not unlike the other, but lefs bril- 
hant. 
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is known by the name of 
Dee-weed- gang. 
‘PT HE mele is about eight inches in length: bill brewn; tongue: 
longer than the bill: the back and wings are of a fine rufous, 
but the forehead and all the under parts are white; the feathers of 
the latter marked down the fhafts with a black line, as are alfo the 
rufous feathers above : between the bill and eyes, fides of the head, 
the 
