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RED-COLLARED SUNBIRD. 



Cinnyris cJialybea, CUVJER. 



Green gold ; breast with a double collar of blue and crimson, 

 the sides yellow ; body beneath, grey ; upper tail-covers, 

 greenish-blue. 



Certhia chalybea, Linnaus, Auctorum. Cinnyris chalybea, 

 Zool. Illust. 1st Series, pi. 95. Le Soui-manga a collier, 

 Vieill. Ois. <TOr. ii. pi. 13, 14. Collared creeper of authors. 



THIS beautiful species, easily distinguished by its 

 two collars, one of blue the other of red, we have 

 already figured in the first series of the Zoological 

 Illustrations ; and we are glad to perceive that the 

 nomenclature, there recommended, for the different 

 groups of this family, have been universally adopted 

 by our best ornithologists. The present species, 

 which is a typical Cinnyris, appears to occur both 

 in Western and Southern Africa ; but it must not 

 be confounded, as has recently been done, with the 

 Sucrier a plastron rouge of Le Vaillant, an error 

 which, from having been pointed out more than fif- 

 teen years ago, we did not expect to see revived. It 

 was probably Le Vaillant's bird which Barrow mis- 

 took for Linnaeus's chalylea ; of which he says 

 that it sings delightfully in the cage, where it is 



