a few examples of apparently the same bird from Gilolo, but in these the crown is of a more decided violet
hue, and the plumes of the breast are much larger.”

Adult male. General colour above brown, shaded with purple under certain lights, the shafts whity
brown; scapulars dark brown ; wings rather paler than the back, especially on the outer coverts, the quills
whitish at tip, the shafts also whitish ; from the middle of the least wing-coverts two long whitish plumes,
ending in an elongate spatula; tail rather lighter brown than the back, with white shafts; nasal plumes
pale fulvous brown, slightly erect and recurved ; crown pale metallic greyish lilac ; lores, sides of face, sides
of neck, and hinder part of the latter pale brown, with a_purplish-lilac gloss, visible only under a change of
light ; cheeks and throat light brown, mottled with metallic green edgings to the feathers, becoming more
uniform on the lower throat, and gradually merging into a triangular shield of green, embracing the lower
throat and fore-neck, and produced into two long tufts of brilliant metallic green feathers, reaching down
each side of the breast to the level of the thighs; chest-feathers light brown, fringed with metallic green ;
breast brown, washed with metallic green; sides of body, abdomen, thighs, and under wing- and tail-coverts
light brown, paler on the thighs: ‘bill horny olive ; feet orange, claws horny; iris deep olive” (JVallace).
Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1°65, wing 6°15, tail 3-4, tarsus ese

Adult female. General colour above and below brown, slightly glossed with purple, the quills whitish
externally and at tip; nasal plumes and frontal feathers sandy buff; crown of head and nape glossed with
dull purplish; sides of face and throat lighter brown than the back; no green gloss on any part of the
plumage ; pectoral shield and standard plumes of wings absent. Total length 11-6 inches, culmen 1°45,
wing 5°55, tail 4, tarsus 1°6.

The descriptions and figures are taken from a pair of birds in the British Museum.