with steel-green, blue, and purple, and relieved by a median spot of velvety black ; rest of under surface 
of body glossy black ; on each side of the breast the plumes elongated into two lax velvety shields: bill and 
legs black: “iris light blue, with a circle of pale yellowish-green colour ” (D' Albertis). Total length 
125 inches, culmen T3, wing 6*1, tail 5’25, tarsus 2T. 
Adult female. Different from the male, being dark chestnut-brown above ; quills and tail blackish, 
externally reddish brown ; crown of head, nasal plumes, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black ; 
cheeks and throat greyish white, finely barred with black and separated from each other by a broad malar 
band of black ; sides of neck black, encroaching on the sides of the lower throat; remainder of under 
surface of body, from the lower throat downwards, isabelline, regularly barred with black. Total length 
1 T5 inches, wing 5*9. 
r Ihe specimens figured in the Plate are in the British Museum, and the descriptions are taken from birds 
in the same collection. 
