NIPAUL SUN-BIRD. 
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with the edges of the quills and secondaries, are 
olive, or of a clear oil-green, the rump gamboge- 
yellow, the upper tail-coverts deep steel-blue ; the 
quills and secondaries are blackish blue, paler on the 
inner webs ; the tail, graduated and having the 
feathers rather accumulated towards the tips, is 
black, the centre feathers being nearly entirely 
greenish steel-blue, those on the outsides edged with 
that colour. The under parts are gamboge-yellow, 
in the centre of the breast and belly bright reddish 
orange ; the insides of the wings are pale yellowish 
white. 
