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CINNYEIS HEUGLINL 



(VON HEUGLIN'S SUN-BIRD.) 



Nectarinia soui-manga, Heugl. J. f. O. 1867, p. 300. 

 Nectarinia, spec.], Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 233 (1871). 



<3 juv. " similis N. aff.ni, minor, rostro longiore, debiliore, magis incurvo, alis brevioribus, tarsis debilioribus : 

 uropygio (tergi et interscapulii modo) pulchre aurato-viridi, nee purpurascenti-chalybeo : pectore, 

 abdomine et subeaudalibus flavis : fasciculis axillaribus aurantiacis, ex parte laete snlfureis : macula 

 frontali, ut videtur, in fundo aurato-viridi chalybea. : rectricibus coracino-nigris, delicate aurato-viridi 

 limbatis : long. tot. circa 4", rostro a fr. vix 7'", al. 1" 11'", tars. 6f"', caud. 1' 3'"" (Von Heuglin). 



Hab. in Africa septentrionali-orientali. 



Male. Like Cinnyris affinis, but smaller, with a longer, weaker, and more curved bill, shorter wings, and 

 more feeble tarsi; rump beautiful golden green, in the same way as the back and interscapulary 

 region, not purplish steel-blue ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts yellow ; pectoral tufts orange 

 and bright sulphur-yellow ; a frontal spot, apparently steel-blue on a golden green ground ; tail-feathers 

 crow-black, delicately edged with golden green. 



Hab. North-eastern Africa. 



In North-eastern Africa there appears to exist a second species of yellow-breasted Sun-bird 

 closely allied to C. affinis, of which Ave have not been able to examine a specimen, and only 

 know of it from Von Heuglin's description, which we have copied above. This description was 

 taken from specimens collected at Quamamile and Singue, south of Fazogl, and preserved in 

 Prince Paul of Wurtemburg's collection at Mergentheim. They were, we are informed, not in 

 full breeding-plumage, but are certainly distinct from C. affinis, and agree in size with C. soui- 

 manga. 



As no specific name has yet been applied to this species, it appears necessary to give it a 

 title ; and we therefore propose to call it Cinnyris heuglini, in honour of the late Baron von 

 Heuglin, to whose researches we are indebted for what we at present know regarding this 

 Sun-bird. 



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