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Le Vaillant states that he procured it near the Gamtoos River, and 
although Mr. Atmore, who knows this locality thoroughly, informs 
us that he has never come across it, it is probable that the above- 
named river forms the western boundary of its range. The reported 
abundance of the species, of which Le Vaillant speaks, may well be 
doubted after Mr. Atmore’s evidence. Mrs. Barber forwarded spe- 
cimens to us from the “ New Year’s River,’ and Dr. Edwin Ather- 
stone from the mouth of the Kleinemont River (eight miles distant 
from the Kowie), where he shot three individuals: it has also been 
found near Grahamstown, and Mr. Rickard records it from Port 
Elizabeth. Captain Shelley says that in Natal it is very plentiful 
about Durban and Pinetown, and Mr. Ayres also has a note on the 
species in Natal, as follows :—‘ These little birds are, I think, rather 
more insectivorous than the other Natal species, as I notice that 
they climb about the creepers and thick foliage a good deal, hunting 
under the leaves and into buds for small insects; but they take 
nectar from flowers in an equal degree. They build a penduline 
nest, generally in some thick bush, hanging it from the leaves and 
outermost twigs. They are very fond of building in orange-trees 
and others of equally dense foliage. They are decidedly scarce, 
though found throughout Natal. Small insects appear to form their 
principal diet.” The following diagnosis is adapted from Captain 
Shelley’s work :— 
General colour above metallic golden green, the least wing-coverts 
uniform with the back, the greater wing-coverts and secondaries 
brown edged with metallic green, the primaries brown edged with 
olive-yellow : tail black, edged with metallic green: throat and fore 
neck metallic golden green, with a narrow pectoral collar of violet: 
rest of under-surface yellow: pectoral tufts bright yellow: bill and 
feet blackish: iris brown. Total length, 3°8 inches; culmen, 0° ; 
wing, 21; tail, t°5; tarsus, 0°67. 
Adult females and young males resemble the old male, but have 
the entire under-surface yellow. 
Fig. Shelley, Monogr. Cinnyride, part I. 
306. ANTHODIMTA ZAMBESIANA. Zambesi Collared Sun-bird. 
This species, which has been to our mind rightly separated by 
Captain Shelley, is the representative of A. collaris in Eastern 
Africa. The type-specimen, now in the British Museum, was dis- 
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