The sexes are nearly alike in colour and may be thus described:—

Frontal band deep indigo-blue, bounded before and behind with a very

narrow line of dull verditer-blue; lores and circle surrounding the eye

dull verditer-blue; all the upper surface yellowish olive-green; under

surface the same, but lighter, and passing into yellow, tinged with

orange on the lower part of the abdomen; under surface of the shoulder

indigo-blue; a few of the wing-coverts greenish blue; primaries brownish

black on their inner webs, and deep indigo-blue on the outer; two centre

tail-feathers bluish green; the remainder of the feathers brown at the

base on the inner webs, green at the base on the outer webs, and largely

tipped with bright yellow; irides very dark brown; upper mandible dark

reddish brown; sides of the under mandible light yellow, the tip bluish

grey; legs and feet dark brownish grey.

The figures are those of a male and a female of the natural size.

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