258 SYLVIAD A. 
The whole length of the bird six inches. From the 
carpus to the end of the longest quill-feather, two inches 
and seven-eighths: the first feather very short ; the second 
equal to the sixth; the third, fourth, and fifth nearly equal 
in length, but the fourth the longest in the wing. 
Females resemble the males in the uniform colour of the 
upper parts; the tail-feathers not so bright: the chim and 
upper part of the throat white, bounded below by a cres- 
cent-shaped patch of blue mixed with some black, the 
horns of which are directed upwards, encircling the white ; 
below the blue colour the breast is pale reddish brown: 
belly and flanks dull white. Some old females have the 
blue and white almost equal in colour to that of the males. 
The young in their first feathers resemble the young of 
the Redbreast. 
Young males after their first moult resemble adult fe- 
males; the blue colour increasing by degrees on the chin, 
sides of the neck, and throat, till the white is reduced to a 
central patch. 
The vignette below represents the nest and eggs of this 
species. 
