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The beak is black ; the irides dusky brown; the top 
of the head black, with a spot of white at the nape 
of the neck; the cheeks and ear-coverts white; the back, 
shoulders, and coverts of the tertials, greenish ash ; 
upper tail-coverts bluish grey; lesser wing-coverts greyish 
blue ; greater wing-coverts bluish black, broadly tipped 
with white, forming a conspicuous bar across the wings; 
quill-feathers bluish black, edged with bluish white, 
which is broadest on the tertials ; tail-feathers bluish 
black, darkest on the inner web; the outer tail-feather on 
each side dull white on the outer web, and on part of 
the inner web towards the end of the feather; the chin 
and throat black, and united to the black colour on the 
sides of the nape, encircling the white ear-coverts and 
cheeks; breasts, sides, and flanks, dull sulphur-yellow ; 
from the chest to the vent a black stripe passes along the 
mesial line ; under wing-coyerts dull greyish white ; under 
surface of the wing and tail-feathers lead grey; under tail- 
coverts white; legs, toes, and claws, lead colour. 
The whole length of this species rather less than six 
inches. From the carpal joint to the end of the longest 
quill-feather, two inches and seven-eighths: the first quill- 
feather very short; the second not so long as the third; 
the fourth a little longer than the fifth, and the longest 
in the wing. 
The female does not differ much from the male; the 
plumage, however, is not so brilliant m colour, and the 
black line down the breast and belly is not so broad as in 
the male, nor does it extend so far towards the vent. 
