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some trunk. Seeking their food upon the ground, they are seen sometimes, like a chicken, scratching with 

 their feet, and greedily examining with their bill the scattered dry leaves and the uncovered spot of ground. 

 Their food consists of earth-worms, beetles, and other insects and their larvae." 



The male has the crown of the head, lores, a broad stripe from the base of the lower mandible and 

 the occiput deep velvety black ; over each eye a broad stripe of rich gamboge-yellow ; all the upper surface 

 and tertiaries rich golden brown ; wing-coverts deep black, with an oblong mark of white at the tip of the 

 outer web of each feather ; primaries and secondaries black at the base, passing into brown at the tip ; 

 two or three of the central secondaries narrowly margined on their apical portion with white ; upper and 

 under tail-coverts and tail very rich deep blue ; throat white, washed with pale yellow, which gradually 

 deepens into gamboge-yellow on the sides of the neck ; below this light-coloured gorget a band of rich 

 deep blue ; remainder of the under surface crossed alternately with narrow bands of orange-yellow and deep 

 blue, and suffused with a lilaceous bloom on the centre of the abdomen ; bill black ; feet flesh-colour. 



The female has the head light orange-brown, striated with brownish black on the crown, the black mark 

 on the side of the head finely striated posterior to the eye with orange ; throat white, washed with light 

 orange-brown on the sides ; the line of blue bounding the gorget very narrow ; the alternate bands of the 

 under surface black and pale greyish brown, instead of blue and orange, and the lilaceous hue much paler; 

 in all other respects the plumage resembles that of the male. 



The Plate represents the two sexes, of the size of life 



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