brown; round the eye is a narrow circle of black, inclining also
forwards and backwards, forming a spit at the back of the head.
Head on the sides, crown, and the neck on die upper part, white,
forming a collar which is only infringed on by the blackish brown
of the chin. There is another pale green spot at the back of the
head. The nape below the white is b l a c k , and this colour also conn s
round the neck. Chin and throat, rich blackish brown; breast above,
white, on the middle and lower part rich chesnut brown, darker on
the latter, passing into buff in front and on the sides just below the
point of the wing. Back, all along the middle part, black; there
is a black patch formed by the tips of the otherwise white feathers.
Just above the joint of the wing is a black spot with green reflections;
lesser wing coverts, white; primaries, dusky blackish brown;
secondaries, partly white, the outer web metallic blue, forming the
speculum—the end portion white. The tcrtiaries arc long and pointed,
white on the inner webs, rich blue on the outer, and curved downwards,
as arc the long scapulars, which are also marked like the
four upper tcrtiaries, namclv, the narrow inner webs white, and the
broad in- outer ones rich blackish metallic blue, and the shaft streak
white. Tail, dusky blackish brown, and rather more pointed thau
in others of this genus; upper tail coverts, black, with a tint of blue;
under tail coverts, dark brownish black. Legs and toes, olive green
—tin1 hind toe has a deep lobe; webs, olive green.
The female has the bill olive black, the tooth yellow horn-colour;
greater wing coverts, dusky (dive brown, tipped with white; lesser
wing coverts, dusky olive brown; primaries, dusky; the secondaries
also tipped with white, thus forming two bars across the wing, between
which is tin; speculum of rich chesnut colour. Of the tcrtiaries
the three longest are dusky. Tail, dusky. Legs and toes, pale
bluish; claws, black; webs, blackish.