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A young male, passing to the adult plumage, is in Mr. Rothschild’s collection. It is |
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velyety black like the adult, but still retains a considerable amount of the first plumage, which 4

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The metallic inner secondaries, when first developed i

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have been like that of the adult female.
the male, appear to be in the adults, while the metallic patch above the eye
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to be more purple than in the full-plumaged male. ea
The Plate represents an adult male and female of the size i
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from the type specimens kindly lent to me by Mr. De Vis. The descriptions are taken fi

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specimens In the Tring Museum, and for the opportunity of describing them I have to p i"
resent my

best acknowledgments to the Hon. Walter Rothschild.

of a deeper blue than