and upper breast ; under tail-coverts rufescent ; tail-feathers brownish tipped with ochraceous ; bill black 
above, white underneath ; feet greenish olive ; iris black. 
Female. Similar to the male, but with the head black with obscure yellowish ochre margins to the 
feathers, surrounded by a band of blue ; collar round the hind neck whitish and rufous ; vent white, very 
slightly rufescent ; throat rufescent with dusky black margins to the feathers. Young birds resemble the 
old female, and have the underparts of a rufous colour. It must be noted that the figures in Mr. Sharpe’s 
work have the soft parts very erroneously coloured, as might have been expected at a time when all 
information on this subject was wanting. 
The Plate represents a male and a female, of the natural size, the latter being the upper figure. They 
have been drawn from a pair of birds in my own collection. 
[R. B. S.] 
