The young bird has the whole of the head, all the upper surface, wing coverts, throat and breast of a 
pale glaucous green. The nun}) and upper tail coverts and the tail like the same parts in the male, but less bright, 
and tin- loner pari of the abdomen is greyish white, with faint stains of scarlet. 
The total length of the male is eleven inches; the female resembles it except that all the colours are 
paler, and the markings less strongly defined. 
In the adult male the plumage generally is of a delicate bluish green, the blue predominating on the 
breast, bead, and upper tail coverts, the green showing on the cheeks and tinging the upper tail coverts. The 
distinguising feature, however, is a brilliant patch of yellow on the shoulders and lesser wing coverts, which is 
Bharplj outlined against a back of light greyish brown, and breast of verditer blue. The head of the male is 
capped with black, rising over a forehead of yellow , which extends in a band round the eye. Primaries and 
secondaries, black, margined externally with blue; feathers of the lower part of the abdomen, vent, and under 
tail coverts, light scarlet, edged with greyish green ; two centre tail feathers, dark green at the base, passing into 
deep blue towards the extremity, and tipped with dull black; the remaining tail feathers light green, crossed by 
an irregular oblique band of dull bluish black, beyond which they become of a paler glaucous green, until they 
end iii while ; e.ieh h is a d:nk stain of hluish ureen on the margin near the tip; irides, brown; bill and nostrils, 
bluish horn colour; feet, mealy grey. 
Habitats : I'ort Darwin and Port Pssington, Gulf of Carpentaria (Queensland). 
