The inner (axillary) tuft is velvety black in both species, but is very much larger in E. speciosus. 
In E. meyeri the sickle-shaped plumes on the flanks are tipped with a bar of bronzy lilac, with a narrow 
subterminal bar of velvety black ; whereas in E. speciosus the bands at the tip are much broader, metallic 
oily green with a subterminal bar of steel-blue. 
In E. meyeri the tail is rather greener than in E. speciosus. The male measures : — Total length 40 
inches, culmen 3"5, wing 7" 5, tail 31, tarsus 2*2. 
Adult female. Very similar to that of E. speciosus, hut with much longer bill and with an olive-coloured 
tail, not reddish. The rufous colour of the head is lighter and more bay, not such a deep chestnut; the 
barring on the under surface is much more distinct and the throat only is dusky, the lower throat and fore 
neck blackish with bars like the breast, only narrower ; the wings are chestnut-rufous externally in 
E. speciosus, and in E. meyeri the wings are externally olive like the back. It must be mentioned that 
Mr. Goodwin was by no means certain that the brown birds were adult females, and it may yet turn out that 
they are immature males, and that the plumage of the old hen bird remains to be described. 
The figures in the Plate represent a pair of birds of a little less than the natural size, and are drawn from 
specimens procured in the Astrolabe Range by Mr. A. P. Goodwin, and presented to the British Museum 
by Mr. Henry Seebolun. 
