GENERAL LOTEN’s SUN-BIRD. 22 ] 
whole of the upper parts, cheeks, sides of the neck, 
and lesser wing-covers, are of a dark metallic-green 
with blue and purple reflections ; the wings umber- 
brown ; tail bluish black, feathers edged with green. 
On the under parts, the chin is velvet-black, the 
neck and upper part of the breast dark metallic- 
green, shading at the lower edge of this gular patch 
into rich steel-blue tinted with violet ; this is suc- 
ceeded by a narrow band of purplish red, the re- 
maining under parts being of a dark yellowish 
hair-brown, relieved upon the sides by two ample 
axillary tufts of king’s-yellow. In some specimens 
the prevalence of the varying colour is different. 
Mr. Jerdon’s birds have a greater shade of purple 
above, and the margin of the gular patch is nearly 
steel-blue. Mr. Jerdon describes the female as — 
“ Above light greenish-brown, quills darker, tail 
black ; beneath pale yellow ; only differs from the 
female of the last (our next bird) in the darker tint 
of the plumage above.” 
