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A. — Length three inches and three quarters. Bill three quarters 

 of an inch, dusky ; feathers of the crown long, and tending back- 

 wards, colour a deep red purple; shoulders, and lesser wing coverts 

 the same ; body deep reddish brown ; throat wholly of a fine ruby 

 glowing colour ; tail cinnamon, all the feathers tipped with dusky 

 black; legs black. 



From South America. Described from a specimen in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Thompson. 



B. — General colour green, crown full of feathers, of a dull dusky 

 brown; chin and throat most splendid glowing ruby colour; wings 

 dusky; tail ferruginous; bill and legs black. 



From the drawings of General Davies. 



C— In the collection of Mr. Mc. Leay is one five inches long ; 

 general colours the same ; over the thighs a white tuft ; and at the 

 inner bend of the wing some rufous feathers, which hide part of the 

 lesser coverts ; quills violet, and as long as the tail ; the two middle 

 feathers of which are dark glossy green, with steel black ends, and 

 shorter than the next, which are wholly steel black ; the rest on each 

 side cuneiform, the outmost steel black at the base, the rest of the 

 length rufous; the next rufous for one-third, and the third only 

 rufous at the tip. This was named Hadalli Bimiti. 



