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a little above and before the eyes the feathers are of a 

 deep velvet black at their base, and ashy tipped with 

 green ; and there is a similar spot of black imme- 

 diately over the ears : the wings are scarcely longer 

 than the body, green, but crossed on the coverts by 

 three velvet black bands : the primary feathers, as 

 well as the whole under side of the wings, are dusky, 

 approaching to black, with the exception of the outer 

 margins of some, which are edged with green : the 

 tail is short, rounded, composed of ten feathers, which 

 are green above, and bluish-black below : the whole 

 of the under parts are green : this colour is lightest 

 on the sides of the neck and round the eyes : the 

 beak is short, wide, much depressed at the base, deeply 

 cleft, and hooked at the point : nostrils oval, at the 

 base of the beak, and concealed by the filiform fea- 

 thers that project over them : the eyes are rather 

 large : the irides bluish : legs bluish-black : a few fea- 

 thers come down over the upper part of the tarsi : 

 feet gressorial ; outer toe not much shorter than the 

 middle one, with which it is united as far as the last 

 joint. The stomach contained nothing but vegetable 

 substances, chiefly grains." 



GENUS CXXVL— PHIBALURA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum brevissimum, eras- 

 sum, robustum, conico- 

 convexum ; mandibula su- 

 perior subarcuata. 



Cauda gracile, longissima. 

 furcata. 



Beak very short, thick, ro- 

 bust, conic-convex, the 

 upper mandible slightly 

 arcuated. 



Tail slender, very long, fork- 

 ed. 



