from each side of the nuchal shield spreads a ruff of velvety steel-black plumes ;

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a band of brilliant golden copper, which extends from
rest of under surface of body rich

with the same golden green ;
the feathers of the throat also are steel-black, with
and encircles the throat ;
ast tipped with burnished emerald-green ; the sides of the

bill and legs black; ‘iris almost black’ (Beccar?).

behind the eye down the sides of the neck,
velvety grass-green, the lateral plumes of the bre
body and under wing- and tail-coverts dusky black ;
Total length 28 inches, culmen 1:6, wing 8°8, tail 7, centre feathers 18.”

The figures in the Plate are drawn from specimens in my own collection, and represent a male about
the size of life, with reduced figures of a male and female in the distance.

 

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