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LITTLE VIOLET-BANDED SUN-BIRD. 

 Nedarinia parvula, JARDINE. 



PLATE VII. 



WE have been permitted to examine a specimen of 

 a Sun-bird very closely allied to the last, by the at- 

 tention of H. E. Strickland, Esq., evidently identical 

 with the N. pusilla of Swainson's Birds of Western 

 Africa ; the name given to it by that author, 

 however, having been previously used both by Lin- 

 nseus and Vieillot, we have endeavoured to sup- 

 ply it with another bearing a meaning somewhat 

 similar. In size it is rather less than N. collaris ; 

 in length, so far as we can measure from the skin, 

 being between three and a quarter and three inches 

 and a half; that of the bill, to the forehead, about 

 six-tenths. The crown, cheeks, back and sides of 

 the neck, back and rump, are of a bronzed green, 

 not so yellow in tint as in the last ; the forehead is 

 violet, gradually shading into the green of the other 

 upper parts ; the upper tail-covers steel-blue ; tail 

 black, margined on the outer webs with green. The 

 wings clove-brown; quills and secondaries edged 

 with olive. Beneath, the chin is black ; fore part 

 of the neck bluish green, terminating in a distinct 



