metallic purple, shot with steel-blue at the end of the secondaries and especially on the innermost of these 
quills ; primaries black, glossed with steel-blue near the ends and slightly glossed with purple externally ; 
tail-feathers metallic purple, the two centre ones recurved and twisted over, with the webs decomposed ; 
crown of head and neck covered with frizzled plumes ; the lores, sides of face, and cheeks velvety black, 
with a green gloss under certain lights ; the crown glossed with purplish and steel-blue and formed into 
a ridge over the eye ; hind neck, sides of neck, and throat metallic oily-green, the feathers very close set 
and velvety to the touch ; the fore neck and chest with longer and more thick-set plumes of green, some- 
what steel-green in their gloss, and glossed with purple on the chest ; remainder of under surface of 
body bronzy purple, with a distinct subterminal bar of velvety black on each feather; lower abdomen and 
thighs glossy steel-green, as also the under wing-coverts; under tail-coverts purple; bill and feet black. 
Total length 17*5 inches, eulmen 2 ‘ 4 , wing 95, tail 7, tarsus 2‘1. 
The Plate represents an adult bird of the full size, drawn from the original specimen, now in the British 
Museum. 
