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vent) are of a remarkably rich and brilliant yellow, slightly in- 

 clining to orange ; vent white ; back, scapulars and lesser wing 

 coverts yellow olive ; wings, rump and tail coverts a lead blue ; in- 

 terior vanes of the former black ; tail nearly even, and black, broad- 

 ly edged with blue, all the feathers, except the two middle ones, 

 are marked on their inner vanes near the tip with a spot of white ; 

 bill long, stout, sharp pointed and wholly black ; eyes dark hazel ; 

 legs and feet a leaden grey. The female differs in having the yel- 

 low and blue rather of a duller tint; the inferiority, however, is 

 scarcely noticeable. 



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