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BRASJLIAN MOMOT. 



through the eyes, and broader Hack h'sts, mixed 

 with a little blue, from the corners of the mouth 

 down the sides of the neck: the top of the head 

 is of an ultramarine blue, though next the bill in- 

 clining to sea-green: in the middle of this blue 

 space on the crown of the head is a black spot: it 

 hath a spot of black feathers edged with blue on 

 the fore-part of the neck a little below the throat; 

 otherwise the whole under side, from the bill to 

 the covert-feathers beneath the tail, is of an olive 

 or greenish buff-colour. Marcgrave says the eyes 

 are yellow : on the neck behind is a crescent-like 

 mark of a reddish colour: the sides of the head, 

 hinder part of the neck, back, rump, and covert- 

 feathers of the wings, are of a parrot-green colour: 

 the greater quills are blue with dusky tips: a fev/ 

 of the first row of coverts above them are also 

 blue : a few of the quills next the back are green : 

 the coverts withinside the wings are of a yellowish 

 brown, the insides of the quills dark ash-colour. 

 I counted only ten feathers in the tail, which 

 seemed to me to be perfect: the tail-feathers are 

 of a fme blue colour, gradually changing to green 

 at their bottoms, having all of them black tips: 

 the under side of the tail is of a dark dusky colour. 

 What is very singular in this bird is, that the two 

 long feathers in the middle of the tail seem as if 

 they were stripped of their webs on each side for 

 an inch space a little within their tips, which is 

 hov/ever natural, and particularly taken notice of 

 by Marcgrave: the side feathers of the tail gra- 

 dually shorten to a third of the length of the mid- 



