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are green. The wing-coverts and the quills next the hack are olive-green; the quills have 

 the hase of the inner weh yellow. The primaries are dark green towards their extremities 

 ahove, black below. The bend of the wing and the under wing-coverts are more or less blue. 

 The tail above is red, with a transverse band at the tip claret-red ; it is golden red below. 

 The thighs are blue. 



The bill is orange-red, the iris dark brown with an inner ring of yellow, and the feet are 

 black. Skin round the eyes and the cere purplish. In the young, we learn from Salvadori 

 that the interscapular region is partly tinged with green, and the feathers of the tibia? mostly 

 dull green. 



The specimens in the National Collection show considerable variation as regards the 

 yellow band under the throat. In some it is more marked than in our Plate, but in one from 

 Ceram hardly a trace of it is to be detected. 



