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Description and Plumage, 



The length of this elegant species is about five 

 and a half inches; the bill straight — reddish- white, 

 at the point inclining to brownish-black. Eyes 

 clear umber-brown ; forehead and chin brilliant ar- 

 terial blood-red; top of the head bluish-black, — th6 

 black extending from the head round the cheeks, 

 and nearly to the throat ; cheeks and hind parts of 

 the neck yellowish-white ; back pale yellowish- 

 brown ; breast pale wood-brown ; under parts in- 

 clining to dingy yellowish-white ; quills dull grey- 

 ish-black, crossed with a large bar of bright gam- 

 boge-yellow; tail greyish-black ; it and the quills 

 tipped with dull yellowish-white ; legs and feet 

 very pale flesh-red, inclining to white. 



