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even there they were not very abundant.” He has also procured it 
in Suaziland. Dr. Kirk, however, found it common in the Zambesi 
Valley and it extends along the coast as far as Mombas; we our- 
selves met with it plentifully at Zanzibar and at Cape Delgado. 
Mr. Andersson gives the following note :—“ This species occurs 
at Lake N’gami, 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 Otjimbinque, where they 
seemed chiefly to seek their food amongst the ‘ tobacco” trees now 
growing so abundantly in the bed and on the banks of the Swankop. 
Can the increase of this tree of late years have brought more of these 
birds? I hardly remember to have seen them at Otjimbinque pre- 
viously.’’ It is probable that the cause mentioned by Mr. Andersson 
has attracted this species and extended its range to the southward, 
but it is pretty plentiful in the countries more to the north; thus 
Anchieta has met with it at Humbe on the Cunene River, where it 
is called ‘‘ Kanzolo,” and is found breeding: he noticed that it sung 
very sweetly. In Mossamedes he also procured it in several places, 
at Gambos, Maconjo, on the Rio Chimba, and at Capangombe ; in 
the latter places it is called by the natives “ Mariapindo.” Mr. Sala 
procured it at Katenbella in Benguela and Mr. Monteiro both in 
Benguela and Angola. 
We killed a specimen at Cape Delgado, clmging to, and appa- 
rently building, a nest similar in shape, and hung in like manner to 
those of the N. famosa. With our rifle we also shot down the nest 
from the elevated pendant branch of a Casuarina tree. It was 
composed chiefly of cobweb and bits of lichen, and had the usual 
covered porch ; it was incomplete, and contained no eggs. 
Coronal patch (confined to the forehead and crown) is of a rich 
bluish-green ; gular patch, of a golden-green, confined to the chin 
and throat, and is bordered on each side with a narrow maxillary 
stripe of the same colour as the crown. Upper parts, cheeks, and 
sides of the neck, very deep, soft, and velvety: umber. brown, paler 
on the wings and tail, the bend of the wing having a violet patch. 
On the under parts, the fore part of the neck and breast are of a 
brilliant scarlet, appearing in different lights waved with violet, from 
the structure of the feathers being the same as those of N. senega- 
lensis ; the simple apical tips only being scarlet and producing all 
the brilliant effect. The remaining under parts are very deep 
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