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and even ; the shafts terminated like the quills : 

 the lateral feathers are deep-black ; but the middle 

 pair are shining metallic green-blue, and shorter than 

 the others : the beak is black. The female has the 

 upper parts of her plumage greyish-brown, the quills 

 and tail edged with ferruginous : the head and sides 

 blackish, each feather marked by a whitish line down 

 the middle of the shaft : the ear-feathers are the 

 same, bordered by a white stripe beginning behind 

 the eye : the under plumage is whitish, tinged on 

 the breast and belly with ferruginous, each feather 

 being marked by a transverse angulated black line : 

 the side feathers and the quills are of ordinary length: 

 but the beak is rather longer than in the male. 



GENUS CCLXXVIL— POMATORHINUS, Horsfield. 



llostrum longiusculum, basi 

 rectum, ultra nares modice 

 incurvura, et abruptius 

 compressum ; culmine vali- 

 diusculo, carinato, apice 

 integro. 



Nares operculo corneo ob- 

 longo convexo clausae, 

 apertura oblique postice 

 spectans, juxta capistrum 

 fornicata. 



Al(2 rotundatae : remiges ; 

 primse et secundze abrupte, 

 tertiae et quartse gradatim 

 increscentes, tertias ad sep- 

 timam externe tenuiter 

 emarginatseo 



Beak rather long, straight at 

 the base, beyond the nos- 

 trils moderately incurved 

 and abruptly compressed ; 

 theculmen somewhat stout, 

 carinated, the apex entire. 



Nostrils closed by an oblong 

 horny convex operculum, 

 the aperture obliquely di- 

 rected backward, arched 

 towards the capistrum. 



JVina-s rounded : the first and 



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second quills abruptly, the 

 third and fourth gradually 

 increasing, the third to the 

 seventh slightly emargin- 

 ated externally. 



