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the feathers just in front of, ahove, and below the eye, and by the ear-coverts. The upper 

 wing-coverts and scapulars are black ; the remiges and the greater and primary wing-coverts 

 are red, with black spots at their apices, which produce the appearance of an oblique black 

 band when the wing is closed. The under wing-coverts are red, with a few black marks 

 towards their apices. The remiges have tips which are black for a considerable extent. 

 Above the black they are, on tneir inner webs, more or less yellow, the rest being red. 

 The tail is black ahove, the two middle feathers being entirely black, as are the outer webs 

 of the lateral ones ; their inner webs are red. The under surface of the tail is red save for 

 the outer web of the outer tail-feathers. The cere and naked skin round the eyes are black. 

 The bill is orange-red, the feet black, and the iris red. Total length 1T5 inches, wing 63, 

 tail 4-2, bill 0-85, tarsus 0-7. 



We learn from Count Salvadori that in the young bird irregular purple-black transverse 

 lines show themselves on the head, neck, lower back, and underparts of the body. 



The most striking features of this bird are the large black patch on the shoulders, the 

 black tail, and the bright purple-blue patch on the side of the head. 



A female specimen in our National Collection (labelled from the Moluccas) has no 

 yellow on the quills, but there is much yellow in another skin which came from the 

 Tweeddale collection. 



