PURPLE-CROWNED TURTELINE. 
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having, as it were, a piece cut out from the tip of 
eacli in the form of a V. Beyond the 
breast is a band of pale green, succeeded 
by a small spot of rose-lilac in the 
middle of the belly, which passes into a 
rich orange, that again by degrees fades 
into a pure yellow, which occupies the 
vent or lower part of the abdomen. The flanks and 
sides are pale-green ; the under tail-coverts rich orange. 
The upper plumage is of a rich and glossy parrot- 
green ; the scapulars with their central part of a deep 
purple or blue, according to the light in which they 
are viewed : the wing-coverts and secondaries are 
margined with yellow. Greater quills, with their 
anterior webs, black, glossed with green, the base of 
the exterior webs green, finely margined with pale 
yellow ; first quill, with the tip, for nearly an inch in 
length, is suddenly narrowed, in the form represented 
in the wood cut. Tail of fourteen feathers, even at 
the end ; the exterior webs green, the inner blackish- 
green. The tips of all, except the two central fea- 
thers, which are wholly green, with a broad band of 
rich yellow. The tarsi are covered nearly to the di- 
vision of the toes, with soft thick-set yellowish-green 
feathers. The soles of the feet. are broad and flat ; 
the claws hooked and strong, the exterior toe longer 
than the inner. 
This species, as the structure of the feet so evi- 
dently implies, is the constant inhabitant of wooded 
districts, where it subsists upon various fruits and 
