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es on the flanks are tipped with a bar of bronzy lilac, with a narrow

In Z. meyeri the sickle- shaped plum
subterminal bar of velvety black ; whereas in EZ. speciosus the bands at the tip are much broader, metallic
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oily green with a subterminal bar of steel-blue.
In £. meyeri the tail is rather greener than in E. speciosus. The male measures :—Total length 40
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elvety black in both species, but is very much larger in EL. speciosus.

inches, culmen 3°5, wing 7°9, tail 31, tarsus 2°2.
Adult female. Very similar to that of EZ. speciosus, but with much longer bill and with an olive-coloured

tail, not reddish. The rufous colour of the head is lighter and more bay, not such a deep chestnut; the

barring on the under surfs
with bars like the breast, only narrower; the wings are chestnut-rufous externally in

‘ace is much more distinct and the throat only is dusky, the lower throat aa fore
neck blackish
E. speciosus, and 1 1 E. meyer the wings are externally olive like the back. It must be mentioned a
Mr. Goodwin was 7 no means certain that the brown birds were adult females, and it may yet turn out that
they are immature males, and that the plumage of the old hen bird remains to be described.
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The figures in the Plate represent a pair of birds of a little less than the natural size, and are drawn from
specimens procured in the Astrolabe Range by Mr. A. P. Goodwin, and presented to the British Museum
by Mr. Henry Seebohm.