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30. Cinnyris cHALyBEUs. Lesser Double-collared Sun- 
bird. 
Sometimes seen on the Leonotis-clumps or hovering about 
the flowers of Cannas or Grevilleas, but by no means 
common. 
31. Cinnyris N1Ass®. Nyasan Sun-bird. 
Cinnyris venustus niasse Reichen. Voég. Afr. ui. p. 474. 
Extremely plentiful throughout the district, and, lke the 
preceding species, a great frequenter of the Leonotis-clumps. 
Many other flowers, however, both wild and cultivated, are 
very attractive to it; and the Cannas in my garden are 
seldom without one or more pairs of this charming little 
Sun-bird. A thorn-hedge, when available, is a very favourite 
nesting-place. 
32. Cinnyris GurrurALis. Scarlet-chested Sun-bird. 
This Sun-bird can hardly be said to be common, though 
occasionally attracted to our gardens or found at some 
flowering shrub or tree in the veld. It used to be reserved 
for Gungunyana’s wives, who wore the skin of its brillant 
scarlet breast as a head-ornament, cutting it so as to include 
the lower mandible of the bill, which was thrust into the 
wearcr’s hair to hold it up. 
33. Cinnyris kIRKI. Kirk’s Sun-bird. 
An occasional visitor to our flower-gardens, and at times 
fairly plentiful where sugar-bushes are in flower. The crop 
of a bird which had been feeding at these flowers contained 
beetles and ants. 
34. Crynyris onrvaceus. Olive-coloured Sun-bird. 
This is the common Sun-bird of the forest. It is one of 
our few birds which have a sustained song, of the true Sun- 
bird stamp. This song is somewhat monotonous, but pleasant 
and far stronger than that of any of its congeners which I 
have yet heard. It is sometimes kept up for two minutes or 
more without a pause. Both sexes sing; but it is the male, 
apparently, which gives these long selections, the female 
merely joining in occasionally for a stave or two, and the 
