The Aillim iiiif (k'si'n))ti()ii is from tlic tliii il VOIIHDC of the ' Ciitiilogiie of liirds':—
AddU wnk. («'iienil colour nliove vehely lihicl;, soiiiewhiit glossed with l)raiizy |inr|ile; mantle produced
into an elevated shield, composed of velvety black phinies, ylossed under certain lights witli bronze; wingcoverts
velvety hlacl;, rather more distiiiclly glossed with purple than the hack; qnills and tail-feathers dee|)
hiack, glossed with steel-blue ; lores and nasal pinnies forn)ing an elevated crest of pnrplisli-blacli feathers ;
croivn of head, nape, and bind neck sjiangled with metallic steel-colonred feathers, each of which has a subterminal
bar of pnrple ; sides of face, sides of neck, and entire throat deep coppery bronze; on the fore
neck and breast a jieetoral shield of bright metallic green plumes, most of which have a narrow edging of
c o p p e r ; remainder of mnler surface purplish black. Total length 9 inches, cnlmen Mo, wing 4-55,
tail ;!•(!.
^Idiill female. Above deep chocolate-brown, the feathers of the top and sides of 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 tij)))ed with white ; rest of
the under sm-face bully white, iuclining to rufons on the ilanks and under tail-coverts, the whole under
sm-faee barred across with dull brown ; imder wirtg-coverts rufous, barred across with brown. Total length
S-y inches, cnlmen I'O.), wing S' l , tail 4, tarsus I'S.
The principal figure is of the natural size, with a reduced male and female in tlic distance.
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