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as those of the
plumes of the hin

sides of the face and chin 5

feathers ;
washed with
black on their inner web: bill

green on the abdomen 3
and legs black ; iris red.
tail 5:59, tarsus 1°35.
Adult female. Siuil
blackish violet with scarcely any gloss.
The Plate represents an adult bird in two positions,

ar to the male, but a little smaller.

from the sides of the
d-neck and throat also lanceolate ;

wings and tail purple,

occiput extend two long tufts of steel-blue
under surface of body burnished steel-blue
the edges of the quills steel-blue, the latter
Total length 13 inches, culmen 1°3, wing 6°35,

The young bird, according to Count Savadori, is

drawn from a specimen in the British Museum