\s usual, tlic Boxes do not vary in appearance, beyond a diminution in size and a modification in the 
colour of the plumage. The forehead is crossed by a narrow hand of bright red; head, neck, and cheeks, 
blackish-brown . throat, blue . hack of neck, a cescent marking of gamboge-yellow ; back, shoulders, and rump, 
deep brighl green, passim; into pale green on the shoulders ; wings, blackish-brown, passing into deep blue at the 
bue; Four oentral tail Feathers of deep grass-green, tipped with lazuline-blue ; lateral feathers, green at base, 
passing into blue, which lades towards the tip into bluish-white; chest, green; under surfaces, light green ; irides, 
dark brow ii . hill. Iii;h1 horn colour, becoming of a lead colour on the upper mandibles; legs and feet, dark brown. 
Habitat ; Western Australia 
