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erytliroryncus, will first claim our attention. The 

 French call them Senegals, because so many come 

 from that country in the way of commerce ; they 

 are, however, dispersed over South Africa, India, 

 and even New Holland. 



The beautiful little species before us seems not 



common in that part of Senegal which lies nei. 

 *he great river Gambia. It does not appear, how 

 ever, in the work of Vieillot, and is only indif- 

 ferently figured in the Planches Colores. It is 

 among the most diminutive species, measuring only 

 about three inches and a quarter. It is not a very 

 typical species, inasmuch as the tail is short, and 

 only the two lateral feathers on each side are ab- 

 breviated or rounded ; the three anterior claws are 

 small, but the hinder is nearly double their length, 

 and all are very slender and but little curved. 



The colour of the upper parts, wings, and sides 

 of the neck and body, is light brown ; over the eye, 

 and before it, a crimson stripe; the rump and 

 upper tail-covers are also crimson. The under 

 parts, from the chin to the tail-covers, straw-yellow, 

 which colour forms short transverse lateral bands on 

 the brown of the sides of the breast, body and flanks. 

 This yellow deepens into rich orange-red in the 

 middle of the breast, body, and all beyond. Tail, 

 blackish ; the two lateral feathers on each side are 

 edged with white and rounded, the rest even ; bill, 

 pale, the top and base blackish ; feet, pale. 



Total length, 3 ; wings, 1^ ; bill, ^ ; tarsus, & 

 tail, Ijfo (base). 



