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33. Nectarinia CHALYBEA, Linn. Lesser Double-collared 

 Sun-bird. 



I met with this Sun-bird abundantly in Cape colony, at 

 Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Piuetown. 



34. Nectarinia gutturalts, Linn. Scarlet-breasted Sun- 

 bird. 



I saw a few specimens which had been shot about Durban 

 and Pinetown ; but I believe they do not come to the coast 

 during the hot season, at which time I was there. 



35. Nectarinia collaris, Vieill. Southern Collared Sun- 

 bird. 



Very plentiful about Durban and Pinetown. I was given 

 two nestlings in the beginning of April ; their breasts were 

 yellow, without any collar, and their upper parts metallic 

 green, as in the adult. 



36. Nectarinia olivacea. Smith. Olive Sun-bird. 



I shot this specie both at Durban and Pinetown, where it 

 does not appear to be uncommon. 



37. Nectarinia VERREAUxi (Smith). Verreaux's Sun-bird. 

 Not uncommon about Durban. It measures 5 '2 inches. 



Beak and legs black ; gape orange ; irides dark brown. 



38. Promerops caffer, Linn. Long-tailed Sun-bird. 



A very local species ; it is plentiful in Cape colony, and 

 extremely common at Mossel Bay, where I usually saw it in 

 family parties. It is a very curious and pretty sight to see 

 a group of these birds busily hunting for insects around some 

 flowering aloes, their long tails floating in the breeze. 



39. Zosterops capensis, Sundev. Cape-White-eye. 

 Common in Cape colony and at Durban; in the former 



place I mostly met with it in the pine forests at the foot of 

 Table Mountain. Irides brown. 



40. Drymceca maculosa (Bodd.) . Cape- Warbler. 



Very abundant in Cape colony; but I am not aware of 

 having seen it at Durban, where its place is occupied by D. 

 subrujicapiUa. Length in the flesh 5 inches ; legs and beak 



