186 NECTARIN1A OLIVACEA. 



Dr. Smith remarks, " Only a very few speci- 

 mens of this bird have yet been found in South 

 Africa, and none, as far as I know, within the 

 limits of the Cape colony. Kafirland, and the 

 country east of it, towards Port Natal, furnishes 

 the specimens we possess. Like the other species 

 of the group, it feeds upon small insects, and these it 

 collects partly from the branches and leaves of brush- 

 wood and dwarf trees, and partly from flowers." 

 The same author also adds a short notice of another 

 species considered new, 



NECTARINIA OLIVACEA, SMITH. 



" THE colour of this species above is intermediate 

 between grass-green and olive-green, the head being 

 strongly tinged with blue ; below it is light yel- 

 lowish green, with an orange tint on the throat, 

 and on each axilla there is a small tuft of brilliant 

 yellow feathers. Length from the base of the bill 

 to the point of the tail five inches, length of the bill 

 one inch three lines." 



