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has the forehead deep green ; crown of the head fawn colour 

 glossed with green ; over each eye a conspicuous streak of 

 huffy white ; the naked papillated skin of the orbits and sides 

 of the face deep scarlet or blood-red, interspersed beneath the 

 eye with a series of very minute black feathers ; horn-like 

 tufts on each side of the head ; throat and neck rich, deep, 

 shining green with violet reflections ; near the base of the 

 neck a conspicuous collar of shining white feathers, narrow 

 before and behind, and broadly dilated at the sides ; the feathers 

 of the back of the neck black, with a narrow mark of white 

 down the centre of the back portion, and a large lengthened 

 mark of ochreous yellow within the edge of each web near the 

 tip ; the feathers of back and scapularies black at the base, 

 with a streak of white in the middle, then buff surrounded with 

 a distinct narrow band of black, to which succeeds an outer 

 fringe of chesnut ; feathers of the back black, with numerous 

 zigzag and crescentic marks of buffy white ; lower part of the 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts light green of various shades, 

 passing into bluish-grey at the sides, below which is a mark of 

 rufous ; breast feathers, indented at the tip, of a rich reddish 

 chesnut, with purple reflections, and each bordered with 

 black ; flanks, fine buff, with a large angular spot of beautiful 

 violet at the tip ; centre of the abdomen black, with violet 

 reflections ; under tail coverts reddish chesnut ; wing coverts 

 silvery-grey ; wings brown, the primaries with light shafts, 

 and crossed with narrow bars of light buff ; the secondaries 

 similar, but not so regularly marked as the primaries ; tail 

 feathers olive, fringed with different shades of reddish violet, 

 and crossed at regular intervals with broad, conspicuous black 

 bands, passing into reddish-brown on the sides of the basal 

 portion of the six central feathers ; bill, yellowish-horn colour ; 

 irides, yellow ; feet, greyish-white. The female has the whole 

 of the upper surface brownish-black, with a margin of buff to 

 every feather ; the throat whitish, and the central portion of 

 the under-surface fawn colour ; flanks mottled with brown ; 

 tail buff, barred with dark brown, between which are other 



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