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CINNYKIS OUSTALETI. 



(OUSTALET'S SUN-BIED.) 



Nectarinia albiventrisll, Bocage, Jorn. Lisboa, 1878, p. 203. 

 Nectarinia oustaleti, Bocage, torn. cit. p. 254. 



3 similis C. leucog astro (vel C. talatala), sed plumis metallicis prsepectoralibus rubro terminatis torquem 

 formantibus et fasciis axillaribus antice aurantiaco-rubris distinguendus. 



Hab. in provincial Benguelensi Africa? occidentabs. 



Adult Male. Very similar to C. leucog aster (better known as C. talatala, Smith). It differs from that bird 

 in the bill being slightly shorter and narrower at the base, in the feathers which form the violet 

 prsepectoral collar being tipped with maroon-red, and the front half of the pectoral tufts being orange- 

 red; bill and legs black; irides dark brown. Total length 4 - 5 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 22, tail l - 7, 

 tarsus 0'6. 



Hab. Benguela, in South-west Africa. 



Professor Barboza du Bocage has named this bird after our mutual friend M. Oustalet, of the 

 Paris Museum. 



Three specimens of this species were collected by M. Anchieta at Caconda, in the interior of 

 Benguela : two were adult males, and one a young male apparently in a dress very similar to the 

 female ; for it is described as follows : — " Brun legerement nuance d'olivatre en dessus, avec les 

 grandes couvertures alaires, les remiges et les rectrices bordees de cette couleur ; en dessous il 

 est d'un blanc sale, lave de jaune sur la poitrine et le ventre et de cendre sur la gorge." While 

 alluding to the present species, I may make the following correction in the nomenclature of the 

 common South-African White-breasted Sun-bird, which should be called Cinnyris leucogaster, 

 under which title Vieillot described it in 1819. The same identical specimen was renamed by - 

 Lesson in 1831 Cinnyris thoracicus. It was supposed to have been brought back from Timor; 

 but, as with so many other birds named by Lesson and Vieillot as coming from this island, the 

 locality is erroneous. The type specimen has been well mounted, and is still to be seen in 

 the Paris Museum. I have examined it carefully ; and there can be no doubt that it belongs to 

 the same species as Nectarinia talatala, Smith, described in 1836. 



Cinnyris oustaleti is, in some respects, intermediate between C. leucogaster and C. albiventris, 

 there not being quite so much red on the pectoral tufts as is generally met with in C. albiventris, 

 while I have never met with a trace of red on the pectoral tufts of the common South-African 

 C. leucogaster. The red on the collar is exclusively confined to C. oustaleti. 



My description is taken from one of the types, an adult male, kindly presented to me 

 by Professor Barboza du Bocage ; and I have figured it on the same Plate with Anthrejates 

 tephrolcema. 



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