copper; remainder of under surface purplish black. Total length 9 inches, cnlmen 1'15, wing 4'55, 
tail 3'6. 
Adult female. Above deep chocolate-brown, the feathers of the top and sides of the head blackish brown; 
over the eye a few white-spotted plumes ; wing-coverts and quills blackish brown, externally reddish ; tail 
brown, externally dull rufous brown ; throat white, all the feathers being black tipped with white ; rest of 
the under surface huffy white, inclining to rufous on the flanks aud under tail-coverts, the whole under sur- 
face barred across with dull brown; under wing-coverts rufous, barred across with brown. Total length 
8'8 inches, cnlmen 1‘05, wing 5’1, tail 4, tarsus 1’3.” 
The principal figure, drawn in a state of excitement, is of the natural size, with a reduced male and 
female in the distance. 
