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MRS. GOULD'S SUN-BIRD. 



Nectarinia Gouldice, VIGORS. 



BELONGING to the same group, in form and colour- 

 ing, is the beautiful species which "will now stand as 

 the Ornithologist's record of an accomplished artist 

 The N. Gouldice was dedicated to Mrs. Gould by 

 the friend of her husband, at a time when she had 

 shown how much could be effected by the union of 

 taste and skill with a fine mechanical invention, 

 and had produced a series of ornithological figures 

 which could vie with the best that had preceded 

 them, aud were excelled only by those which ap- 

 peared in her later works. 



" The top of the head, ear-coverts, throat, a spot 

 on each side of the chest near the shoulder, tail- 

 coverts, and two middle tail-feathers, are of a rich 

 metallic-blue with brilliant purple reflections; the 

 back and sides of the neck and shoulders are deep 

 sanguineous red ; the rump and under surface bright 

 yellow, the latter having a few sanguineous dashes ; 

 the quills and outer tail-feathers dark brown." The 

 above is the description given by Mr. Gould of this 

 beautiful species, from a specimen at the time con- 

 sidered unique. On examining that specimen in 

 the collection of the Zoological Society of London, 



