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The Avhole family may be seen Hying about the forest 
together. 
iNIr. AVheelwright describes a freshly-killed male as 
follows: — Forehead carmine red; a black streak from 
the nostrils to the eye, and a similar one on the side 
of the throat from the nnder mandible. Head and 
neck ash grey, with small longitudinal blackish streaks 
or spots on the crown of the head. Back and wing 
coverts green; rump shining greenish yellow; all the 
under parts of the body jjale ash grey, with a faint 
green tinge. AVing feathers dark brown, with transverse 
white spots on the inner web, and similar, but smaller 
ones on the outer web. Tail feathers blackish green 
of one colour, with the exception of the two middle 
ones, which are marked with indistinct transverse bars. 
Beak thinner than that of P. viridis, bluish brown, 
having the root of the under mandible greeaiish yellow. 
Iris red; legs grey green. Length twelve inches; car- 
pus to tip six inches and one eighth; tail five inches. 
The female has no red on the forehead, which is 
replaced by small brown spots; the green on the back 
has an ashy grey tinge. 
The bird which I have figured is a young one of 
the year, sent me with the egg by Mr. MTieelwright, 
of Gardsjo, Sweden. The difference in dimensions are 
those between fresh and dry skins. 
It has also been figured by Edwards, pi. 65, 
(young male;) Naumann, Vogel Deutsch., pi. 133, 
(male and female;) Sepp. Hederl. Vogel, page 389, 
(female;) Stor, Degl. Ucc., vol. ii, pi. 177, (female;) 
Meyer, Vogel Deutsch., pi. 22, (male and female;) 
Boux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 59, (male and female;) Bouteil, 
Orn. du Dauph, supplement, fig. 4; Gould, B. of E., 
pi. 227. 
