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BLUE-BANDED NANODES. 
tree, and lavs its eggs, to the number of seven or 
eight, upon the decayed particles of wood at the 
bottom of the hole, without the addition of any other 
materials. The eggs are white and immaculate. 
The bill is grey, the under mandible paler than the 
upper. The frontal band, which crosses from eye 
to eye, is narrow and of a deep azure-blue, the space 
between the bill and eyes gamboge-yellow. The 
crown of the head is green, deeply tinged with sul- 
phur-yellow, the cheeks, throat, and the upper part 
of the breast are of a delicate siskin-green, passing 
gradually into a rich yellow, the head, neck, back, 
upper tail-coverts and scapulars are of a pale olive- 
green, with a greyish tinge, the lesser and greater 
wing-coverts are deep glossy azure-blue. The quills 
black, with their outer webs margined with azure- 
blue. The two middle tail feathers are pale azure, 
tinged with grey, the lateral with their bases azure- 
blue, their tips gamboge-yellow, passing gradually in- 
to primrose-yellow, the feet and claws are grey. 
Our next figure represents another species of this 
group : it is the 
