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NECTARLNIIDJi. 



from grccu into deep lilac-purple, this colour forming a broad 

 cvescoiit across the chest : rest of back and wing-coverts olive- 

 yellow ; wings and tail dark brown, externally washed with the 

 colour of the back ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts bright 

 orange-yellow ; pectoral tufts bright yellow ; flanks olive-yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and thighs olive-grey. Culmen 0-95 inch, 

 wing '2-1-2-2, tail 1-8 [^-0], ta^^sus 0-G8. 



Juv. male and (uhiU female. Above uniform olive-brown, washed 

 with yellowish on the upper tail-coverts and on the outer web of 

 the quills and tail ; all the uiulerparts dull yellowish, washed 

 with browjiish, especially on the throat and chest. Wing 2 inches. 



JIab. South Africa ; apparently confined to the Cape Colony. 



Obs. This species is the connecting link between the genera 

 Nectarinia and /Ethoi^ycju. 



a. (S ad. st. 



b. cj ad. st. 



c. d. tS $ ad. st. 

 e. cS jav. sk. 



(moulting). 

 f-i. S $ ad. sk. 

 A;, c? imm. sk. 

 I. S ad. sk. 



VI. 2 ad. sk. 

 n. S juv. sk. 

 ti. c? imm. sk. 



;j. 2 ad. sk. 



(/. 2 ad. sk. 



South Africa. 

 South Africa. 

 South Africa. 

 South Africa. 



South Africa {Lai/ard). 

 South Africa {Layard). 

 South Africa. 



South Africa. 



Cape Town {Butler). 



Table Mountain, Dec. 4, 



1861 (Andersson). 

 Table Mountain, Nov. 3, 



18G1 (Andersson). 

 Kuysna, Jan. 24, 1866 



(Atidersson). 



Dr. Lee [P.]. 

 Hon. J. Melville [P.]. 

 SirA. Smith [C.]. 

 Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 F. D. Godman aud 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



4. CHALCOSTETHA. 



Chalcostetha, Cab. Miis. Hein. i. p. 10.3 (1850). 



Type. _ 

 C. insignis. 



Very similar to JEthopyga but for the plumage, which is of a 

 different pattern. The feathers of the back and rump are quite short 

 and metallic coloured ; tail much graduated ; female very plainly 

 coloured. 



Range. Malayan Sub region. 



1. Chalcostetha insignis. 



Nectarinia pectoralis, Temm. PI. Col. 1-38. fig. -3 (1823, nee Horsf.); 



Schl. ^ Miill. Natuurl. Gesch. Zool, Ares, p. 57, pi. 9. fig. 2 (1846). 

 Cinnyris pectoralis, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 83 (1828). 

 Nectarinia pectoralis, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv. p. 513 (1829). 

 Nectarinia calcostetha, Jard. Mvnogr. Sun-birds, p. 263 (1842). 

 Nectarinia insignis, Jard. torn. cit. p. 274 (1842, e.x Temm.) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847) ; Gould, P. Z. S. 186-5, p. 663 ; id. B. Asia, 



part 19, pi. 5 (1867). 

 CinnjTis niacklotii, Bp. C. A. i. p. 408, no. 44 (18.50, e.v Temm.)- 

 Chalcostetha pectoralis, Cub. Mus. Hein. i. p. 103 (1850). 



