throat laterally cobalt ; sides of body, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts chestnut, glossed with lilac 
on the sides of the upper breast ; under wing-coverts chestnut, the outer lower coverts huffy white, as also 
the edge of the wing ; lower surface of quills dark brown, edged with rufous along the inner web ; tail 
light indigo, waved across with dusky lines under certain lights, all the feathers rather broadly tipped 
with white. 
Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 2*25, tail 2*35, tarsus 0*95. 
The present species seems to be confined to North-western New Guinea. Wallace procured it at 
Dorey, D’ Albertis at Ramoi ; and it was obtained in Salwatti by Mr. Bruijn’s hunters. 
The figures in the Plate represent a male and a female, of the natural size, drawn from specimens lent 
to me from the Dresden Museum under the direction of Dr. Meyer. 
