of the present work ; I trust, therefore, before its close to clear up the confusion which at present exists

of plumage to which this and other species are subject.

 

with respect to the char

Some adult males have the head, neck and breast rich deep shining blue margined posteriorly with green,
a broad Iunate mark of white at the nape of the neck ; wing-coverts, back, the very lengthened tail-coverts
and the flanks shining dark grass-green ; wings deep purplish brown ; tail white, very narrowly edged and

more broadly tipped with purplish brown; abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts white; bill black

 

feathers clothing the tarsi in front black, behind white

 

reen hue increasing in intensity posteriorly 5

Other adult males have the head and neck greenish blue, the
een, and the upper surface and tail-coverts

a broad band across the breast and the flanks shining olive

 

        

   

les, perhaps not fully adult, have the head and neck greenish blue; the white nuchal
mark less a like diversity in the hue of the upper surface, some being green and others bronzy
much more deeply tipped with purplish brown, the extent of the purplish brown tipping being

the tail white,
cowards the outer ones,

 

dually decreasi

 

eneral colouring. is similar, but the tail is deep bronzy

 

which may be a young male, the

 

In ai
green passing into black near the extremity, with the outer three fe

   

broadest on the outer one, and successively less on the two inner ones; the basal portion of the external
web of the outer feather is also white; under tail-coverts greenish grey, with a broad crescent of bluish

black near the extremity, and tipped with white.
In the female, or perhaps the young, the head is greenish brown
ted, the centre of each feather being brown

"upper surface mottled glossy green

tail as in the last described ; throat varie

 

and coppery ;
surrounded with a fringe of white; under tail-coverts 4
this state that the term finbriatus has been applied
Exythrina

senish grey, with a crescent of black near the

 

 

extremity, and tipped with white. It is to the bird
the beautiful plant figured is the

 

The Plate represents two males and a supposed female;

unbrosa of Humboldt and Bonpland.