copper; remainder of under surface purplish black. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 4*55,
tail 3*6.
“ Adult female. Above deep chocolate-brown, the feathers o f the top and sides o f the head blackish brown;
over the eye a few white-spotted plumes; wing-coverts and quills blackish brown, externally reddish ; tail
brown, externally dull rufous brown; throat white, all the feathers being black tipped with white; rest of
the under surface buffy white, inclining to rufous on the flanks aud under tail-coverts, the whole under surface
barred across with dull brown; under wing-coverts rufous, barred across with brown. Total length
8*8 inches, culmen 1*05, wing 6*1, tail 4, tarsus 1*3.”
The principal figure, drawu in a state o f excitement, is o f the natural size, with a reduced male and
female in the distance.