Crown of the head and nape bluish green, bordered over the upper mandible and along the lores with 

 buff, and above the eyes with bright verditer ; back of the neck, back, and scapularies olive green ; lower 

 part of the back deep blue, each feather tipped with verditer blue ; upper tail-coverts verditer blue ; lesser 

 wing-coverts deep blue ; greater coverts of the primaries and spurious wing bright verditer blue ; coverts 

 of the secondaries dull greenish blue, becoming of a purer blue at the base; primaries deep rich blue, 

 crossed towards the tip with a broad band of verditer blue, which is brightest on the external web, beyond 

 this the tip is blue, shading- into dull black at the extremity, shafts black ; secondaries deep blue, with a 

 band of verditer blue on the middle of the outer web only ; tertiaries olive green ; lores and throat 

 purplish brown, passing into fawn-colour on the breast ; the darker feathers of the sides and base of throat 

 have a stripe of buff, and those in the centre of the throat a line of bright blue down the shaft- 

 under wing-coverts deep blue ; lower part of the abdomen greenish blue, passing into the dull verditer 

 blue of the vent and under tail-coverts ; two middle tail-feathers dull green ; the remainder deep blue, 

 largely tipped with pale verditer blue; shafts black; bill black; legs and feet dusky yellow; irides reddish- 

 brown. 



The sexes present no appreciable difference in their colouring 

 The figure of this fine species is of the size of life. 











