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mandible ; irides, bright orange ; tongue, large and fleshy ; the 
inside of the upper and outside of the lower mandible are 
grooved, so as to receive distinctly the long separated reedlike 
teeth ; there is also a gibbosity in the two mandibles, which 
do not meet at the sides, and this vacuity is occupied by the 
sifters just mentioned ; head and upper half of the neck, glossy, 
changeable green ; rest of the neck and breast, white, passing 
round and nearly meeting above ; whole belly, dark reddish 
chestnut; flanks, a brownish yellow, pencilled traversely with 
black, between which and the vent, which is black, is a band 
of white ; back, blackish brown ; exterior edges of the scapu- 
lars, white ; lesser wing-coverts, and some of the tertials, a fine 
light sky blue ; beauty spot on the wing, a changeable resplen- 
dent bronze green, bordered above by a band of white, and 
below with another of velvety black; rest of the wing, dusky, 
some of the tertials streaked down their middles with white ; 
tail, dusky, pointed, broadly edged with white ; legs and feet, 
reddish orange, hind toe not finned. 
With the above another was shot, which dilfered in having 
the breast spotted with dusky, and the back with white ; the 
green plumage of the head intermixed with gray, and the belly 
with circular touches of white, evidently a young male in its 
imperfect plumage. 
The female has the crown of a dusky brown ; rest of the 
head and neck, yellowish white, thickly spotted with dark 
brown ; these spots on the breast become larger, and crescent 
shaped ; back and scapulars, dark brown, edged and centred 
with yellow ochre ; belly, slightly rufous, mixed with white ; 
wing, nearly as in the male. 
On dissection, the labyrinth in the windpipe of the male was 
found to be small ; the trachea itself seven inches long ; the in- 
testines nine feet nine inches in length, and about the thick- 
ness of a crow quill. 
