CINNYEIS FUSCUS. 



(WHITE-VENTED SUN-BIRD.) 



Le Sucrier Namaauois ou a calepon Mane, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 168, pi. 296 (1808) ; 



Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 57(1857). 

 Cinnyris fuscus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 506 (1819); id. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 594 



(1823); Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 60 (1828); Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 407. no. 28 (1850); 



Gurney, in Andersson, B. Damara Land, p. 71 (1872); Sharpe, ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. 



(1877). 

 Nectarinia fusca, Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 183, 252, pi. 8 (1843) ; Strickl. & Sclat. 



Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 153; Mull. J. f. O. 1855, p. 13. no. 138; Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 51. 



no. 146 (1857); id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 109; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 79. no. 131 (1867) ; id. 



Ibis, 1868, p. 244 ; Chapman, Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 407 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. 



p. 106. no. 1284 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 40. no. 371 (1871). 

 Cinnyricincla fusca, Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, pp. 295, 306. nos. 692, 718, pi. 580. 



figs. 3942-44 (1854). 

 Adelina fusca, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265. 



<S supra nigricanti-brunneus, vix bronzino nitens : tectricibus alarum medianis et majoribus remigibusque 

 saturate bruuneis late pallidius marginatis : supracaudalibus caudaque nigris indigotieo lavatis : gutture 

 et pectore nigris, plurnis jugularibus metallice bronzino marginatis: fasciis pectoralibus lrete auran- 

 tiacis : abdomine et subcaudalibus albis : tibiis et subalaribus saturate brunneis : rostro et pedibus 

 nigris : hide saturate brunnea. 



5 supra pallide brunnea : linea superciliari lata pallida : remigibus rectricibusque saturate brunneis pallidius 

 marginatis, rectrice extima anguste albo marginata : subtus cinerascenti-albida : tibiis brunneis : sub- 

 alaribus albis. 



Hab. in parte occidentali AfricBe meridionalis. 



Adult Male. Upper parts blackish brown, the feathers, including the least series of wing-coverts, broadly 

 edged witb metallic violet, green, or coppery bronze ; quills and the greater and median series of wing- 

 coverts dark brown with broad pale brown edges ; upper tail-coverts and tail black, glossed with blue ; 

 sides of the head black ; the ear-coverts narrowly edged with bronze ; front of the neck and the breast 

 black, with the feathers on the throat and crop broadly edged with violet shaded coppery bronze;, 

 pectoral tufts bright orange; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; thighs and under wing-coverts 

 dark brown; bill and legs black; hides dark brown. Total length 4"4 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 23, 

 tail I 1 65, tarsus 07. 



Adult Female. Upper parts, as well as the sides of the head, light brown ; a broad pale eyebrow ; wings and 

 tail dark brown, with pale edges to the feathers ; the outer tail-feather narrowly edged with white ; 

 underparts ashy white; thighs light brown ; under surface of the wings brown with pale inner margins 

 to the quills, and the coverts white ; bill and legs black ; irides dark brown. Total length 43 inches, 

 culmen 0*7, wing 2*1, tail V7, tarsus G"65. 



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