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shot with steel-blue at the end of the secondaries and especially on the innermost of ¢l
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metallic purple,
clossed with steel-blue near the ends and slightly glossed with purple externall
2 xternally .

quills ; primaries black, ¢
vers metallic purple, the two centre ones recurved and twisted over, wi
s , with the webs d
s decomposed -
posed ;

tail-featl
crown of head and neck cove
certain lights ; the crown elossed with purplish and steel-blue and formed j

rmed into

red with frizzled plumes ; the lores, sides of face, and cheeks velvety black
y black,

with a green gloss under
a ridge over the eye ; hind neck, sides of neck, and throat metallic oily-green, the feathers very cl
and velvety to the touch; the fore neck and chest with longer and more thick-set plumes of a ae
what steel-green in their gloss, and glossed with purple on the chest ; remainder of ee ae
body bronzy purple, with a distinct subterminal bar of velvety black on each feather; lower i Ne _
thighs glossy steel-green, as also the under wing-coverts ; under tail-coverts pur re bill oa am ae
Total length 17°5 inches, culmen 2°4, wing 9°5, tail 7, tarsus le Oa
[he Plate represents an adult bird of the full size, drawn from the original specimen, now in the British
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Museum.