J68 LESSER DOUBLE-COLLARED SUN-BIRD. 



under tail-covers ; from the sides of the breast, on 

 each side of the red band, spring tufts of king's- 

 yellow, the feathers composing which are rather 

 longer than those covering the flanks. The wings 

 and tail are blackish-brown glossed with green, 

 in some specimens hair-brown, which chiefly occurs 

 in birds before the change of breeding-plumage 

 takes place. The upper tail-covers are rich violet- 

 purple. 



A female from Southern Africa is in length aboufc 

 four inches four-tenths. The colour of the whole 

 plumage is a brocoli-brown, darker on the wings 

 and tail, and much paler in shade on the under 

 parts ; bill and legs brownish black. 



To exhibit the distinctions we have alluded to in 

 the above description, and also to represent another 

 very beautiful bird of this form, we give a figure of 

 the " Sucrier a plastron rouge of Le Vaillant," un- 

 der the title of 



