SPLENDID SUNBIRD, 



are solely black : the third, and two following quills, 

 are all of the same length. 



Total length, 3^ inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; 

 wings, 2J; tail beyond, 1^; tarsus, ^. 



LINEATED, OR SENEGAL SUNBIRD. 



Cinnyris Senegalensis^ CUVIER. 



Front and chin emerald-green ; throat and breast scarlet, 

 transversely lineated with purple ; body black ; wings cin- 

 namon-brown. 



Certhia Senegalensis, Linncsus. Cinnyris Senegalensis, Cu- 

 vier. Le Soui-manga violet a poitrine rouge, Vieill. Ois. 



<TOr. ii. 8 Le Sucrier-Protee, Le Vaill. Ois. tfAf. vi. 



pi. 295, f. 2. 



THIS superb species is only inferior in richness of 

 colouring to the last. It is probably one of the most 

 common birds of Senegal, as scarcely any collection 

 imported from that country does not contain several 

 specimens ; it is seldom, however, that these are in 

 the fine and perfect plumage of the adult male. 



Le Yaillant, who found this species also in Caf- 

 fraria, relates a singular habit belonging to the male. 

 It appears, that on ordinary occasions, when the 

 bird is in his full plumage, the blue lines which 

 cross the middle of the breast-feathers are scarcely 



