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much, less curved, as seen by the outline here 
given of both. 
It is also four-tenths of an inch shorter : the whole 
of the upper mandible is deep black, except the ba- 
sal margins, just at the rictus and the base of the 
culmen ; which parts are bright red, without any 
appearance of this colour having extended further : 
the under mandible is black for about one-half its 
length, and red at the basal half ; in the young 
bird the bill is entirely black, with the margins 
only of the gape red : the ground colour of the 
whole plumage, in the adult, is deep black, richly 
glossed with purple-blue on the chin, throat, upper 
neck, and wing-covers : in all the other parts of the 
plumage, which is glossy, the colour is dark green- 
ish-blue, without any of that golden, or coppery- 
green, seen in P. erythrorynchos : the rump, belly, 
and under tail-covers, are deep black, and not 
glossy : two-thirds of the spurious quills are covered 
with a large oval white spot : the three first quills 
have a similar spot in the middle of their inner 
webs : but on the six next quills, the white spot 
