S2 PIJRPI.E WATEKIIEN. 



thighs bluish black; under tail coverts white; under 

 tail feathers brown. Beak and frontal plate red; feet 

 and legs pink; iris red. 



The young of the year^ after the first moult, have, 

 according to Degland, the occiput and nape yellowish 

 brown; upper parts brown ash, shaded here and there 

 with indigo blue ; cheeks and neck ash, washed in 

 front with turquoise blue; crop and abdomen ash, 

 shaded with brown on the flanks, with whitish on the 

 under tail coverts, thighs, and lower part of abdomen; 

 wings dark indigo blue, with the extremity of the 

 coverts bordered with whitish ; feet green russet. Before 

 the first moult there is no blue in the plumage. 



My figure is taken from a specimen kindly sent me 

 by Mr. Tristram, marked "Algiers, Dec, 1855." 



It has also been figured by Brisson, Orn., vol. v, pi. 

 42, fig. 1; BufFon, pi. enl. 810, under the name of 

 Taleve de Madagascar; Boux, Ornith. Prov.; Bouteillc, 

 Orn. du Dauph., pi. 58; Gould, B. of E., pi. 340. 



