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red and uniform in colour. The interscapular region is streaked with beautiful blue in the 

 centre of the feathers. The ear-coverts have their feathers, which are blackish, also con- 

 spicuously streaked with blue ; cheeks and throat bright red. The feathers of the uropygium 

 and the upper tail-coverts are obscurely marked with dusky blackish, sometimes purplish, 

 tips. The scapulars are black, but both their outer webs and their tips are red. The smaller 

 and median wing-coverts are red with the hidden bases of the feathers black, at least on the 

 inner webs. The greater wing-coverts are black with red tips ; the primaries and primary- 

 coverts are black, edged with red, and the base of the inner web is red. The secondaries are 

 red with black shafts and black tips, the extent of black towards the tip becoming broader 

 from without inwards, while the innermost is entirely black. The under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries are red. 



The tail is black above, with a bronzy, or greenish, tinge, red underneath. The centre 

 tail-feathers are entirely black above, the others have their inner webs red. 



The thighs are red, but their plumes, and those of the lower flanks, have black bases. 

 There are blue ends to some of the feathers of the flanks. 



The upper and lower mandibles are said by Forbes to be scarlet with orange tips. The 

 cere, naked skin round the eyes, and the feet are black. The iris is rich brown. 



Total length 11-5 inches, wing 6-3, tail 6-2, bill 0-8, tarsus 07. 



The eight specimens in the British Museum are all very much alike, save one, which is 

 a very imperfect skin. 



