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The wings are green above, darker at the margins of the shoulders. The scapulars are 

 tinged with olive, chiefly at their outer webs. The primaries and secondaries are deep green 

 on their outer webs, and become more or less black towards their tips. The quills are bright 

 yellow on their inner webs for a long extent, so that the under surface of the wing is yellow 

 save for the black ends of the quills and the crimson under wing-coverts. The tail above is 

 at the root more or less red, then greenish and dark violet for its apical half; the under 

 surface of the tail is also more or less red at the root and then golden olive to its tip. 

 The skin round the eye is dark purple. The bill is orange-red, somewhat deepest at the 

 base. The legs and feet are black, and the iris yellowish. 



The young differ in the blue of the abdomen mixed with red. 



Total length 12 inches, wing 6 - 4, tail 4'1, tarsus 8. 



Of the eight specimens in the National Collection we have observed some considerable 

 differences as to the extent of the purple on the lower breast and the shade, it being often 

 very deep and dark. 



As in L. hypoenochrous, in some a black band exists on the under surface of the wing 

 between the red and the yellow, formed by the black ends of the inferior primary-coverts. 

 This black mark is present in three specimens, while in four it is entirely absent. 



This species has a very extended range in New Guinea, from Port Moresby to the district 

 of E/ubie. 



