a few examples of apparently the same bird from Gilolo, but in these the crown is of a more decided violet 
hue, and the plumes of the breast are much larger.” 
Adult male. General colour above brown, shaded with purple under certain lights, the shafts whity 
brown; scapulars dark brown ; wings rather paler than the back, especially on the outer coverts, the quills 
whitish at tip, the shafts also whitish ; from the middle of the least wing-coverts two long whitish plumes, 
ending in an elongate spatula ; tail rather lighter brown than the back, with white shafts ; nasal plumes 
pale fulvous brown, slightly erect and recurved ; crown pale metallic greyish lilac ; lores, sides of face, sides 
of neck, and hinder part of the latter pale brown, with a purplish-lilac gloss, visible only under a change of 
light ; cheeks and throat light brown, mottled with metallic green edgings to the feathers, becoming more 
uniform on the lower throat, and gradually merging into a triangular shield of green, embracing the lower 
throat and fore-neck, and produced into two long tufts of brilliant metallic green feathers, reaching down 
each side of the breast to the level of the thighs; chest-feathers light brown, fringed with metallic green ; 
breast brown, washed with metallic green; sides of body, abdomen, thighs, and under wing- and tail-coverts 
light brown, paler on the thighs : “bill horny olive ; feet orange, claws horny; iris deep olive ” {Wallace). 
Total length 1T5 inches, cultnen T65, wing 6T5, tail 3‘4, tarsus T7. 
Adult female. General colour above and below brown, slightly glossed with purple, the quills whitish 
externally and at tip ; nasal plumes and frontal feathers sandy buff ; crown of head and nape glossed with 
dull purplish ; sides of face and throat lighter brown than the back; no green gloss on any part of the 
plumage; pectoral shield and standard plumes of wings absent. Total length 1 T6 inches, culmen T45, 
wing 5 55, tail 4, tarsus 1*6. 
The descriptions and figures are taken from a pair of birds in the British Museum. 
