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crown, thence to the nape wide ; on each side of this a broad conspicuous stripe of buffy olive-brown 

 bounded below by a narrow line of dull white stained with bluish green, and terminating in a few lengthened 

 feathers ; a narrow black line under the eye, continued in a broader one down the sides of the neck- 

 unites with the black at the nape ; upper surface and greater wing-coverts dark grass-green ; lesser 

 wing-coverts glossy verditer-blue ; rump and upper tail-coverts the same ; primaries black, with pale bluish- 

 grey tips, and with a large patch of white about the middle of their length, forming a conspicuous oval mark 

 when the wing is spread ; the secondaries are also black, conspicuously tipped with white, and the external 

 ones margined with green ; on the apical portion of the black, in those nearer the body, the green gradually 

 increases in breadth till the black is nearly invisible ; under surface of the wing black, interrupted by the 

 oval spot of white and by the central under-coverts being also white, faintly tinged with blue ; tail black 

 tipped with blue ; chin and sides of the neck creamy white ; breast and under surface light cinnamon 

 brown, brightest on the breast ; vent and under tail-coverts bright scarlet ; bill black, with a fleshy brown 

 base ; irides hazel ; legs and feet pinkish flesh-colour. 



The Plate represents an adult male and a bird with the striated plumage mentioned above, both of the 

 natural size. 



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