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Head proportionately small, body large; tail long, consisting of twelve broad 

 feathers; bill strong, broad at the base, slightly declinate at the tip of the upper 

 mandible, bristles at the base; nostrils partially concealed by a few recumbent fea- 

 thers, a broad band of white crossing the forehead extending the entire length of 

 head; crown, cheeks, lore and sides of the neck dusky; throat and fore-neck pure 

 white; back, scapulars and rump brown, deeply tinged with green; wings brown, 

 margined in the outer webs with greenish-yellow; upper tail-coverts brown, breast, 

 abdomen, sides, vent and under tail-coverts lemon color; shafts, secondaries white, 

 primaries brown; second and third quill equal and longest, fourth and fifth a little 

 shorter, sixth longer than the first; tail brown, margined with pale green; shafts 

 white and strong, slightly emargirate or nearly even; upper tail- coverts brown, 

 margined with pale green; a concealed patch of bright Vermillion on the top of the 

 head, bill dark horn color, lighter below; length along the ridge 1-8 inch, gap 8-12, 

 tarsus, feet and claws strong, scutellate; length from bill to end of tail 7 1-4 

 inches, wings from flexure 4 inches, tarsus 3-4, latteral toes equal and free, middle 

 toe and claw 3-4, hind toe 6£-12 inches. 









