184 NAMAQEA, OR WHITE- VENTED SEN-BIRD. 
brown, glossed with blue. The chin is dull black, 
and the fore part of the neck and breast are purplish 
brown having purple and green reflections, shading 
into blackish brown on the flanks and upper part 
of the belly, and which again runs into white on 
the vent, flanks, and under tail-coverts. Prom each 
axilla springs a tuft of bright orpiment-orange 
plumes, contrasting decidedly with the otherwise 
comparatively sombre appearance of the bird. The 
specimens in our own collection, above alluded to, 
are above entirely clove-brown, the breast and throat 
only shewing a dark and metallic lustre. The length 
is from four and a half to four and three-fourths of 
an inch. 
The female is described by Le Vaillant as of a 
greyish brown above (probably of the brocoli or hair- 
brown which marks the same parts of the male), 
and beneatli of a dirty white. The young, again, 
are said to be of a reddish brown above, below of a 
reddish white, and the males in this state can be 
distinguished by a pale yellow spot which marks 
the position of the axillary tufts. 
