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rather frequent the neighbouring mountain-valleys, especially where the Accasia, Asclejna, and 

 Euphorbia are in blossom. He also met with it at Takah and Southern Kordofan, where it 

 appears to be resident, and was in full breeding-plumage during the rainy season. 



Mr. Jesse found it plentiful about Rayrayguddy, and procured specimens on his journey 

 from Undul Wells to Facado, but did not meet with it in Bogos, owing probably to its having 

 migrated from that district during his visit ; for the Italian naturalists Antinori, Beccari, and 

 Issel, who procured, while near Keren, young birds in May and specimens in the moult in 

 October, consider it to be a summer visitant in Bogos, arriving there in May and remaining to 

 the end of November, where it frequents the same localities as C. habessinicus ; they did not meet 

 with it in December, January, or February, at which season it probably approaches the equator; 

 but its furthest southern limits cannot yet be very accurately denned. 



In Tigre, according to Lefebvre, it is common throughout the year, where it may be seen 

 flitting around the bushes which clothe the hill-sides. 



It probably never extends to the west of the Nile valley ; for we have little doubt that the 

 Nectarinia affinis of M. Bouvier's catalogue of the collection made by Marche and De Compiegne 

 in West Africa should be referred to the closely allied C. venustus. 



It breeds in April and May; and I have extracted the following notes upon its domestic 

 economy from Dr. Brehm's observations: — A pair, he remarks, although not in full plumage, 

 had their nest almost completed. The latter was placed not more than three feet from the 

 ground, between the leaves of a bush and a creeping plant, which were partly interwoven into 

 its structure, which consisted of scraps of bark and fibre, fine grass and down, lined inside with 

 hair and wool. In form it was bag-shaped, with an entrance near the top, which was partially 

 hidden by a large leaf. The birds were engaged eight days in constructing this edifice. 



The specimen, from which my figure and descriptions are taken, was collected by Mr. Jesse 

 at Rayrayguddy, and forms the centre of the group in the illustration. 



