violet-bronze, remainder of the tail-feathers dark brown, with narrow pale ends ; in front of the eye a 

 triangular patch of black feathers ; sides of the head and sides of the neck metallic golden green like 

 the crown ; chin and throat metallic green, of a more emerald shade than the back, but strongly glossed 

 with gold ; entire breast and under tail-coverts rich gamboge-yellow ; thighs dark brown j under surface 

 of the wings dark brown with the inner margins of the quills paler ; bill and legs black ; irides dark 

 brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 04, wing 2 - 15, tail 3"5, tarsus 055. 



Hab. White-Nile district and northern portion of West Africa. 



Besides the short bill and two elongated centre tail-feathers which belong to this genus, the 

 members are also well marked by their bright yellow breasts. The present species may be 

 readily distinguished from H. metallica by the entire throat being green, not terminating in a 

 steel-blue collar ; and the metallic portions of the plumage are also strongly glossed with golden 

 copper. 



In North-eastern Africa its range appears to be limited to the western side of the White 

 Nile, and its northern range to be Kordofan, whence there is a specimen in the Cambridge 

 Museum collected by Petherick. 



According to Von Heuglin it assumes its full plumage during the rainy season in September 

 and October, and its habits and song resemble those of the closely allied H. metallica, and like 

 that bird it is only met with singly or in pairs. All his specimens he procured in the Upper 

 White-Nile district, between the Djur and Kasanga rivers: here it was also met with by 

 Antinori around the flowers of the acacia trees. 



In West Africa its range is confined to the northern portion, where it appears to be fairly 

 plentiful and evenly distributed from Senegal to Sierra Leone. Temminck records it from the 

 Guinea coast ; but if it does occur so far south it must be only as a straggler, for we have no 

 authority for its ever ranging so far south as Fantee. 



The adult male, which we have here figured and described, is from St. Louis, in Senegal, 

 and belongs to the Marquis of Tweeddale. 



