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glancing bluish and greenish ; towards the belly terminating 
in a well-defined broad blue cross band, and on the sides 
passing into the ultramarine of the ornamental plumes. 
Belly shining satiny black. Under wing-coverts brownish 
mixed with dark grey. Axillaries exteriorly brownish, in¬ 
teriorly bluish green. Under surface of the wings blackish 
grey, with brighter inner edgings on the primaries and 
bluish on the secondaries. The ornamental plumes are 
divided into two portions : the larger outer ones are rather 
rigid, and on the underside are bright ultramarine blue at 
their bases and pass into lilac; on their upper sides, i. e. on 
the hinder sides, they are shining brown; the shafts of 
these feathers above at their bases are white, with the end 
half brown, below they are entirely bright brown. The 
smaller inner ornamental plumes, which are in part strongly 
curved inwards, are bright blue at their base, in the middle 
portion ultramarine or cobalt-blue, passing towards the 
apices into bright greenish blue; upon the smaller orna¬ 
mental plumes lie as coverts a row of shortened chestnut- 
brown feathers strongly curved, and upon part of them 
another row of black feathers. The tail is blue above with 
brighter edgings, and dirty greenish at the base; below it is 
uniform bright blue. The two lengthened middle tail- 
feathers carry at their bases brownish webs on a white shaft; 
at the end of the other tail-feathers these webs disappear 
almost entirely, and then again gradually increase to a 
breadth of half a centimetre the two together; the spatula¬ 
shaped tips are about 7 millim. in diameter; the colour of 
these feathers is above black changing to violet; below black, 
with a light bright blue spot at the tip; the shafts are black 
both above and below. The bill is yellowish white ; the feet 
(in the dried skin) brownish horn-colour; the iris (according 
to Hunstekds information) is brown. 
Female. Flank-feathers loose and lengthened, on their 
inner sides greenish blue; belly rusty reddish with dark 
cross bands ; the feathers on their undersides bluish green. 
Tail beneath with lightly marked shadings, which disappear 
towards the tail-end. Thighs black. Feathers of the upper 
