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shoulders, and less, w.-covers, brilliant golden-green, feathers 

 black at the base ; w. and t. black, feathers of the latter edged 

 with golden green. Below, throat and fore part of the neck 

 steel-blue (changing as upon the head) ; across the breast a 

 band of scarlet, according to position appearing as if banded 

 with steel-blue, golden-green, or violet, or to be composed en- 

 tirely of one of tnese tints ; lower breast, belly, and flanks, 

 deep black ; under t.-covers steel-blue ; axillary tufts primrose- 

 yellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. Length, 5\ in. ; of bill to 

 forehead 9-10ths ; of w. to long quill, 3 in. 8-10ths. 



Hob. Great Namaqua country, towards Fish river, Le Vaitt. 

 Sierra Leone, coll. from Dr. Ferousson. Cape Coast, Niger 

 Exped. L. Fraser. Note. Plumage with the webs of the fea- 

 thers loose and unconnected ; up, t.-covers nearly as long as 

 the tail. 



N. COLLARTS, Vieillot (Enc. Method.), 1823. 



Cinnyris collaris, Vieill. Enc. Method, ii. p. 590, 1823; 

 Diet. Classique d'Hist. Nat. xv. p. 510, 1829. Le Su- 

 crier Gamtocin, ou a cordon blue, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. 

 pi. 299, M. and F. 



Above, bright yellowish green ; w. umber-brown, feathers 

 broadly edged with yellowish green, quills with oil-green ; t. 

 greenish black, broadly edged with deep green. Below, chin, 

 throat, and up. breast, yellowish green, shading into and ter- 

 minating in a narrow band of blue glossed with violet ; lower 

 breast and flanks wax-yellow, shaded to gamboge-yellow on the 

 centre, vent, and und. t.-covers ; axillary tufts pale kingVyel- 

 low ; bill, legs, and feet, black. Length, 4 in. 2-10ths to 3 in. 

 8-10ths; of bill to forehead 4l-10ths.; of w. to long, quill, 2 in. 

 to 1 in. 8-10ths. 



9 Above, nearly as in $ ; cheeks and sides of the neck, 

 dull yellowish green. Below, chin yellowish white; breast 

 and flanks wax-yellow, shading into dull gamboge-yellow in the 

 centre of the belly, the vent, and und. t.-covers ; bill, tarsi, and 

 feet, brownish black. Length, 3 in. 8-10ths. 



Hob. Gamtoos, Le Vaill. S. Africa, coll. Dr. Smith. Fer- 

 nando Po, Niger Exped. L. Fraser. 



