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slight coppery lustre ; lores, feathers above the eye, and sides of face, as well as the chin and sides of the
throat, glossy purple ; Id of metallic steel-blue plumes spreads out onto the chest, and
is followed by a double band, the first ve
with an olivaceous lustre; rest of under surfac
abdomen and flank-feathers, the latter being elongated into silky plumes, which reach beyond the tail;
rts and vent velvety blue-black : bill and legs black ; iris brown. ‘otal length 12:2 inches,

from the chin a shie
Ivety black with a burnished coppery lustre, the second golden ereen

e olivaceous, shaded with reddish purple, especially on the

under tail-cove
2, wing 6°65, tail 4:25, tarsus 1°65.

culmen 2°
ashy brown on the head and neck, shading into olivaceous brown on the

Adult female. General colour
back and rump, slightly tinged with re
ear-coverts dusky brown, with slightly indicat
on the feathers of the crown ; over the eye

as also the throat, which is separated from the c
hite, mottled with cross bars of blackish, much wider apart on the abdomen and
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ddish on the upper tail-coverts 5 lores, feathers round the eye, and
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ed shaft-streaks of ochraceous, these being also faintly perceptible

a broad line of white, forming a distinct eyebrow ; cheeks white

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heeks by a broad malar streak of blackish ; rest of under

surface of body dull w
flanks, the feathers of the latter being somew
wing-coverts like the back, the greater series orange-chestnut, this being also the
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Total length 11:2 inches, culmen 1:95, wing 6:0,

hat elongated; under wing-coverts like the breast, the cross-
bars less distinct 5 upper
colour of the quills, which are brown on the inver webs.
tail 4°3, tarsus 1°6.

The figures in the Plate represent

British Museum.

a pair of birds of the natural size, and are drawn from specimens in the