sides of the breast margined with dark-green, and the feathers of the 
lower parts of the sides of the breast, and abdomen having a large 
dark-green spot. Lower back and scapulars white, broadly margined 
with purplish-carmine. Between these two colours, there is a blackish 
band, glossed with dark-green, and also some dots and a center marking 
of the same colour exists. Rump olive-green, with buff and dark 
pluish-green markings at the base. Lower rump and upper tail-coverts 
olive-green; under side of the rump light columbia-blue; the side of 
the upper tail-coverts orange-rufous. Wing-coverts bluish-grey, nearly 
white at the bend of wing and tinged with olive on the inner parts. 
The feathers of the inner coverts, and tertiaries, broadly edged with 
brownish-maroon, and the latter having in addition a black centre dot, 
margined with olive-buff. Secondaries greyish-black, with white vermic- 
ular dots and buffish-olive edge; primaries black, with some irregular 
bars. 
"Breast fiery copper-red, narrowly edged with dark-blue; middle of 
the upper abdomen and whole of its lower parts black, glossed with 
deep-blue; under tail-coverts burnt sienna, Tail olive, with black bars, 
and greyish maroon on the side, 
"Bill horny-grey, paler on the cutting edge; legs pale horny-grey; 
iris yellow (dark brown or dark hazel in the female) ."' 
Wing: 232-257 mm.; tail: 424-596 mm.; culmen: 34-46 mm.; 
tarsus: 65-73 mn. 
“Adult Female 
"Forehead and top of the head black, with Van Dyke's brown edge and 
buff subterminal band; face, nape and breast brown, with a black edge 
and a bar, and the parts between the black edge and the bar next to it, 
rosy~buff with pale vermiculations of sepia colour; circumocular region 
nearly white, and ear-coverts Van Dyke's brown. Upper shoulder Van Dyke's 
brown, with consecutive black, buff and black bars at the tip, and a 
narrow glossy, purplish line encircling the buff bar. Lower shoulder, 
back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts dusky Van Dyke's brown, 
with black spots and buff margins; wing-coverts similarly patterned, but 
the brown and buff much paler than the back. Primaries dark-brown, with 
pale buff bars, changing to brown near the shaft; secondaries pale-buff, 
barred and dotted with black, and, between these bars and dots are also 
tinted with pale~brown. Tail dusky Van Dyke's brown, with black bars 
and dots, and a rusty-brown triangular spot above the black bars. 
"Throat buffish-white; lower breast and abdomen pale ochreous~-buff; 
flank pale-brown, with large black V-shaped speckles, broad margined of 
pale~-buff." 
Wing: 206-230 mm.; tail: 224-307 mm.; culmen: 32~38 mn.; 
Tarsus: 56-64 mn. 
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