PROMEBOPID^. 73 



Measurements of a male : — 



in. lin. 



Entire lengtli 4 6 



Length of folded wing 2 3 



„ tarsus 8 



„ middle toe 4 



„ tail 16 



bill 10 



[I am not aware that any figure of this beautiful Sun-bird has 

 yet been published ; and as the descriptions which have been 

 given of it are not very generally accessible, I transcribe that 

 drawn up by the late Mr. Strickland from a male in full plu- 

 mage, and inserted in the ' Contributions to Ornithology/ 

 loc. cit. : — 



'' Head, back, and lesser wing-covers metallic green, the crown 

 with a coppery gloss; upper tail-covers bluish green; greater wing- 

 covers and remiges deep fuscous, margined externally with greyish 

 brown ; chin bluish green ; cheeks and throat bright coppery 

 green ; a broad zone on the breast of violet -purple, followed by 

 a narrow one of dull greyish brown ; axillary tufts gamboge- 

 yellow ; abdomen, sides, and lower tail-covers dirty white ; beak 

 and legs black."— Ed.] 



91. Chalcomitra gutturalis (Linn.). Proteus Sun-bird. 

 Le Sucrier Protee, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 295. tig. 2. 

 Nectarinia seneyalensis, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 

 Orn. 1852, p. 153. 

 „ „ Layard's Cat. No. 133. 



Nectarinia natalensis, Layard's Cat. No. 134. 

 Nectarinia seneyalensis, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr,, App. p. 407. 

 Chalcomitra gutturalis, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 1307. 

 Nectarinia gutturalis, Sharpe's Cat. No. 364. 



This species occurs at Lake Ngami, and is pretty 

 abundant in the neighbourhood of the Okavango. In 

 Damara Land proper it is not common ; but in June 1866 

 I obtained several specimens at Objimbinque, where 

 they seemed chiefly to seek their food amongst the 

 " tobacco" trees now growing so abundantly in the bed and 



