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CINNYEIS CHALYBEUS. 



(LESSEE, DOUBLE-COLLARED SUN-BIRD.) 



Le Grrimpereau a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 643, pi. 32. fig. 1 



(1760). 

 Certhia chalybea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 186. no. 10 (1766) ; P. L. S. Miill. S. N. ii. p. 257. no. 10 



(1773); Gm. S. N. i. p. 475 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 284 (1790); Shaw, Gen. Zool. 



viii. p. 196, pi. 28. fig. 1 (1811); Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 179. no. 11 (1812). 

 Grrimpereau du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Buff. PI. Enl. 246. fig. 3 (1770-86). 

 Soui-manga a collier, Buff. Hist. Ois. v. p. 502 (1778) ; Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. pp. 32, 34, 



pis. 13, 14 (1802). 

 Collared Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. ii. p. 709. no. 10 (1782); id. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 247. 



no. 40 (1822). 

 Jeune Soui-manga, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 47, pi. 26 (1802). 

 Sacrier a double collier, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 178 ; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 57 



(1857). 

 Cinnyris chalybeus, Cuv. Begn. Anim. i. p. 412 (1817); Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. 



p. 498 (1819) ; id. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 585 (1823) ; Swains. Zool. 111. pi. 95 (1820-33) ; Less. 



Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 22 (1828); Hahn, Vog. pt. 16, pi. 3 (1829); Less. Traite d'Orn. i. 



p. 293. no. 6 (1831); Hahn, Orn. Atl. Cinnyris, p. 2. no. 2, pi. 2 (1834) ; Swains. B. W. 



Afr. ii. p. 132 (1837) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 407. no. 24 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 102. 



no. 559 (1850); Reichb. Handb. Scansoria?, p. 289. no. 668, pi. 575. figs. 3916-18 (1854); 



Gurney in Andersson, B. Damara Land, p. 69 (1872). 

 Nectarinia chalybea, Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. p. 221 (1822); Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 15 



(1823); Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 166, 248, pi. 1 (1843); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 97 



(1847); Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 12. no. 120; Miill. J. f. O. 1855, p. 13. no. 133; Grill, 



Zool. Anteckn. pp. 11, 39 (1858); Pelzeln, Eeise Novara, Vog. i. p. 51 (1865); Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 75. no. 122 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 43; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 106. 



no. 1282 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 39. no. 369 (1871); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 70; 



Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 202. 

 Cinnyris capensis (nee Linn.), Less. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 293. no. 7 (1831). 



<S ad. similis C. afro sed minor, et plaga pectorali scarlatina minus extensa et paullo saturatiore. 



2 ad. similis C. afro sed minor. 



Hab. in Africa meridionali. 



Adult Male. Similar in plumage to C. afer, but with the scarlet breast-band narrower and rather darker. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 2-25, tail 1-9, tarsus - 65. 



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