brown the feathers streaked in the middle with green I the neek, the interseapnlary regton, the breast, and
abdomen green, ornamented with yellow shaft-streaks ; the streaks on the breast broader and more orange
in tin t; throat dnll green varied with r e d ; thighs r e d ; under tail-coverts green, very narrowly streaked
with yellow towards the tip ; wings externally green, the median and lesser coverts very narrowly streaked
with bright green, the lesser coverts somewhat blnish ; under wing-coverte and axdlanes r e d ; quills green
on the outer web, dusky,on the inner one, with a very broad yellow patch towards the base o f the inner web,
tail-feathers green above, red for the basal half of the inner w e b ; the apical p a rt of the tail-featheis
underneath yellowish olive; bill, cere, and feet black ; iris orange yellow." The sexes are a lik e ; but the
young bird has the whole o f the head dark brown, with the streaks on the neck and breast fiery orange,
more o r less broad in th eir extent. .
The figures in the Plate represent, o f about the natural size, two adult birds, , drawn from specimens in my
own collection. p j g § j