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CARMELITE SUN-BIRD. 



Nectarinia fulyiTiosa, SHAW. 

 PLATE XIV. 



THIS apparently not very well known species does 

 not seem common in our collections; there is a 

 specimen in the British Museum, another in the 

 Coll ,ction at Edinburgh, from which our figure has 

 been taken, and Mr. Strickland has obliged us with 

 the use of a specimen from among his Nectari- 

 niadas, from which we have made our description. 



The body, above and below, is uniform pale yel- 

 lowish umber-brown, the wings and tail consider- 

 ably darker, and with a slight purple reflection ; 

 the forehead has an imbricated patch of auricula 

 purple, extending to the line of the eyes and the 

 chin, throat, and fore part of the neck, forming the 

 gular patch, with the lesser wing-covers or radial 

 edges of the wings, are of the same colour; the 

 axillary tufts are bright primrose-yellow. The en- 

 tire length about five inches. The female is said to 

 want the coronal patch. 



Malemba, on the west coast of Africa, is given by 

 Vieillot as the locality of this species, but we are 

 not aware where those which have come under our 

 own observation have been received. 



