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GREEN-BANDED CDCKOO. 
white markings we shall presently describe), toge- 
ther with the wings and tail, is of a rich glossy me- 
tallic-green of various tints ; of these, golden yellow, 
passing into reddish copper, is the most prevalent, 
hut very many of the feathers have a strong tinge of 
blue round their margins, and sometimes there is a 
solitary spot or two of blue ; there is no regularity, 
however, in these tints, which gives consequently 
the whole a patchy appearance. Before the eye is 
a white stripe, another is behind it, and a third, 
placed in front, reaches half down the crown ; the 
ears are green, the maxillary stripe is also green 
but detached. The lesser quills and the four outer- 
most primaries have three white spots on their ex- 
ternal margins, and some of the wing- covers are 
banded with white; the under plumage is pure white; 
the sides of the body, the thighs, the under tail-covers, 
and the inner wing-covers, being all distinctly banded 
with brownish-green, more or less vivid, on the 
under tail-covers, and black on the inner wing- 
covers. The lateral tail-feathers are more or less 
spotted with white, hut the outermost greenish-black 
with four pair of transverse white spots, and a white 
tip ; the next is the same, hut the spots are round, 
much smaller, and do not unite ; hill and feet brown. 
Total length, 7f inches ; hill, from the gape, ^ ; 
wings, 4-j'g ; tail beyond, ; ditto from the base, 
3£; tarsus, T ° 3 . 
