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streaked in the middle with green. The neck, the interscapulary region, the hreast, and the 

 ahdomen are green, ornamented with yellow shaft-streaks. The streaks of the hreast are 

 broader and more orange in tint than those elsewhere situated. The throat is dull green 

 varied with red. The tibiae are also red. The under tail-coverts are green, very narrowly 

 streaked with yellow towards their tips. The wings are green externally, the median and 

 lesser coverts being very narrowly streaked with light green. The lesser coverts are 

 somewhat bluish. The under wing-coverts and axillaries are red. The quills are green on 

 their outer webs, dusky on the inner webs, with a very broad yellow patch towards the 

 base of the inner web. The tail-feathers are green above, with the basal half of their inner 

 webs red. The apical parts of the tail-feathers are yellowish olive beneath. The bill, 

 the cere, and the feet are blackish. The iris is orange-yellow. Total length 11/8 inches, 

 wing 7 '2, tail 4-5, bill 09, tarsus - 85. 



The tw r elve skins preserved in the Natural History Museum closely resemble each other, 

 except that in the specimen from the Gould collection the shaft-streaks on the back and 

 lower neck are fewer and less bright in colour. 



