. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . on-purple ; rump ^i liite; throat and fore-neck yellow,edged behind with reddish ; under tail-coverts scarlet; bill dark with red tip and a large yellow blotch onupper mandible,* bright green with blue cast, withred tip, narrowly black-edged at base, a wedge-shapedred spot at base of upper mandible. Female muchsmaller, and with an altogether shoiter and moreabruptly terminated bill. Hab., Southern ;\Iexico, examples have been exhibited at the Gardens. A speci-men in the Berlin Gardens was studied as regards thecolouring of the soft parts with the following
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . on-purple ; rump ^i liite; throat and fore-neck yellow,edged behind with reddish ; under tail-coverts scarlet; bill dark with red tip and a large yellow blotch onupper mandible,* bright green with blue cast, withred tip, narrowly black-edged at base, a wedge-shapedred spot at base of upper mandible. Female muchsmaller, and with an altogether shoiter and moreabruptly terminated bill. Hab., Southern ;\Iexico, examples have been exhibited at the Gardens. A speci-men in the Berlin Gardens was studied as regards thecolouring of the soft parts with the following result: — Bill bright green with bluish showing through it, withred tip, narrowly bordered with black at the base; atthe base of the upper mandible a cuneiform red spot,which also, towards the front, appears to be shadeUwith deeper red; eyes brown-black; naked orbitalregion torquoise-blue, with greenish reflection; feetWue-grey. Short-billed Totjc. {Shamphastos hrevicarina(us).Differs from the preceding in the better defined and. ^: ^
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