This beautiful little gem--a native of Vera Paz, in Guatemala--is
adorned somewhat after the fashion of the Birds of Paradise, its head
being ornamented with six long, green, hair-like feathers, three on
either side of the body. The upper part is of a coppery bronze colour,
a band of buff crossing the lower end of the back. The face is green;
and the throat is adorned with emerald feathers surrounded with others
long and white. These start from the neck, being edged with blue-black.
Beautifully adorned as is the male, the hen-bird possesses neither
crest nor neck-plumes, her colour being of a dull, bronze-green, and
greyish-white sprinkled with green on the under part of the body.