and upper breast ; under tail-coverts rufescent ; tail-feathers brownish tipped with ochraceous ; bill black
above, white underneath ; feet greenish olive ; iris black.

Female. Similar to the male, but with the head black with obscure yellowish ochre margins to the
feathers, surrounded by a band of blue; collar round the hind neck whitish and rufous ; vent white, very
slightly rufescent; throat rufescent with dusky black margins to the feathers. Young birds resemble the
old female, and have the underparts of a rufous colour. It must be noted that the figures im Mr. Sharpe’s
work have the soft parts very erroneously coloured, as might have been expected at a time when all
information on this subject was wanting.

The Plate represents a male and a female, of the natural size, the latter being the upper figure. They
have been drawn from a pair of birds in my own collection.

[R. B. S.]