. A general history of birds . rest fine bright verditer colour, mixed hereand there with black, chiefly owing to some of the feathers beingdishevelled; for, as the tips alone are blue, and the rest of the lengthblack, it is only when perfectly smooth that the plumage appearsuniformly blue; the quills and tail feathers black, the outer marginsblue, the ends wholly black; tail even at the end, of a moderatelength, and the wings reach to about one-third of it; legs dusky. Inhabits Cayenne, and if the same with that quoted from Azara,which I am inclined to believe, also at Paraguay, where he met
. A general history of birds . rest fine bright verditer colour, mixed hereand there with black, chiefly owing to some of the feathers beingdishevelled; for, as the tips alone are blue, and the rest of the lengthblack, it is only when perfectly smooth that the plumage appearsuniformly blue; the quills and tail feathers black, the outer marginsblue, the ends wholly black; tail even at the end, of a moderatelength, and the wings reach to about one-third of it; legs dusky. Inhabits Cayenne, and if the same with that quoted from Azara,which I am inclined to believe, also at Paraguay, where he met withfive specimens in May and June. A most beautiful and perfect birdis in the collection of Lord Stanley, as well as one of the following,supposed to be the female. Length six inches and a half. Bill made as in the last described,very near half an inch broad at the base, and not quite so much inlength ; shape almost triangular, and conic; colour black ; nostrilsminute, round, in a depression near the base; plumage above fine.
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