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and axillaries blue, the longer coverts black, a patch of bright golden yellow intervening 

 between them and the black margin of the wing. The blue of the nape advances forwards 

 on either side and ends pointedly, but, as in the preceding species, only to a moderate extent, 

 not nearly forming a collar. The red of the flanks joins that of the sides of the upper breast, 

 a narrow patch of red intervening between the blue of the abdomen and that of the 

 axillaries. The patch of purple on the back, behind the lower transverse red collar, may be 

 more or less black or with a transverse black band. The tail above is blue, especially towards 

 its apex, more anteriorly it has a browny shade. Beneath the tail is of a shade of golden 

 yellow. The bill is deep orange, the iris deep hazel, and the feet almost black. 



Total length 11*0 inches, wing 6"6, tail 3" 7, culmen 1 - 1, tarsus 0"8. 



Some of the specimens in the British Museum have the under wing-coverts much darker 

 than those of others ; in the skin which is the type of Eraser's L. mperbus they are almost 

 entirely black. 



