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482 Adult Female. Plate CLXXXIV. Fig. 4, 5.

The bill, feet and sides, as in the Male, as are the upper parts, only the tail-feathers are more broadly and extensively margined with the dark colour, and tipped with white. The fore-neck and centre of the breast are white, with a central longitudinal band of black, and an eme- rald-green margin along the sides of the neck, passing beneath the wing, the lower tail-coverts green, slightly tipped with brownish-white.

Length 4| inches.

BiGNONIA GRAKDiFLOBA, Willd. — DiDYKAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA, Linn. BlGNO- niacEjE, Juss.

Leaves pinnate, leaflets ovate, acuminate, inciso-serrate ; flowers in a terminal panicle, large, the tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx. For the beautiful drawing from which this plant has been engraved, I am indebted to Miss M. Martin. i