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however, with a decided greenish tinge, and the colour usually brightest and most intense towards the 

 bases of the primaries ; the tips of the tertiaries and later secondaries more or less untouched with this 

 colour, giving the effect of rather irregular ill-defined black or blackish tippings. The tail is dark brown, 

 margined everywhere, and both webs of the central and the outer webs of the lateral feathers suffused with 

 a somewhat duller shade of the wing-colour, varying as this does from bright golden olive to dull greenish 

 olive-yellow. The wing-lining varies : when the red descends far on the breast, it is chiefly ruddy olive- 

 brown ; but in others, which show less red on the breast and abdomen, it is a pure olive or olive-brown, 

 some few of the longest feathers being like the lower surface of the quills, a dark glossy, somewhat blackish 

 hair-brown ; the edges of the wing are white, yellowish, or ruddy in patches, varying a good deal in 

 different specimens." 



The figures in the Plate represent a male and female of about the size of life ; they have been drawn 

 from a pair of birds kindly lent me by Captain Wardlaw Ramsay. 



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