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ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
MEGALAIMA CAPISTRATUS, Eyton. 
RECEIVED from Mr. Eyton for illustration. The locality marked 
“ unknown.” 
Above, forehead before the eyes and over the nostrils, black; a 
streak above the eyes, cheeks, and auriculars, pale indigo, which 
also tips some of the last feathers of the black forehead; the crown 
and nape forming a narrow collar on the sides of the neck, and 
almost meeting the gorget, shining orange yellow, slightly inter- 
spersed with yellowish-green, into which colour it shades on the 
back rump, greater part of the wings, and middle tail-feathers : 
quills and secondaries, blackish-brown ; outer webs edged with yel- 
lowish-green, inner with very pale yellowish-brown ; tail, greenish- 
brown ; beneath, the chin black; throat, breast and centre of the 
belly, clear greenish-yellow, crossed in the centre of the throat 
with a gorget of orange-yellow, i broad in the centre, and nar- 
rowing to nothing, where it almost reaches the nuchal collar ; the 
belly, vent, and flanks, are pale greenish-yellow, having the centre 
of each greyish-green; bill greenish-yellow, bluish-black at the 
base; tarsi and feet blackish-blue, 
Entire length, 7.8; bill to forehead 6; to gape, 9; wing, 2.8; 
tarsi, 64. 

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