The following note was published by the late Marquis of ‘Tweeddale :—* This species has the black
largely developed than in M. muelleri of Borneo. In no other

central abdominal patch much more
Of fourteen

The extent of pure white on the quills is dependent on sex.
The primaries of the
The 6th, 7th, and

respect does it appear to differ.
individuals with the sex noted by Mr. Everett, nine are males and five are females.
male have a much greater white surface than is found in the primaries of the female.
8th primaries are scarcely tipped with black; and the first five primaries have double the amount of
white that exists on the primaries of the female. On examining Luzon and Negros examples with the
sexes noted by Dr. B. Meyer, the same character differentiates the sexes. In
mueller (sex determined by Mr. Everett) the sexes can be discriminated by the amount of white on the
remiges. In JZ. cucullata some of my examples exhibit a maximum of white on the quills, and the others

a minimum; but as none have had their sexes determined by dissection, Iam unable to affirm that in that

Jornean individuals of JZ.

species the same law holds good. In two Zamboanga skins the green of the breast and flanks is
assuming the blue tint so prominent in the large representative form JZ. steeri.”

Mr. Everett gives the soft parts as follows :—“ Iris chocolate ; bill black; legs brownish grey.”

Head and neck deep black; back, scapularies and tertiaries dark grass-ereen ; lesser wing-coverts shining
verditer blue; greater coverts light grass-green ; primaries white, tipped with brownish black ; spurious
wing and base of the secondaries deep black; rump and upper tail-coverts shining verditer blue; tail
deep black, slightly tipped with green; under surface of the shoulder black ; breast, abdomen and flanks
green; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts blood-red.

The front figure is of the natural size, the hinder one somewhat reduced.

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