FBOMEBOPID^. 73 



Measurements of a male : — 



in. lin. 



Entire length 4 6 



Length of folded wing 2 3 



„ tarsus 8 



„ middle toe ... .04 



„ tail 16 



„ bill 10 



[I am not aware that any figure of this beautiful Sun-bird has 

 yet been published ; and as the descriptions which have been 

 given of it are not very generally accessible, I transcribe that 

 drawn up by the late Mr. Strickland from a male in full plu- 

 mage, and inserted in the ' Contributions to Ornithology/ 

 loc. cit. : — 



" Head, back, and lesser wing-covers metaUic green, the crown 

 with a coppery gloss; upper tail-covers bluish green; greater wing- 

 covers and remiges deep fuscous, margined externally with greyish 

 brown ; chin bluish green ; cheeks and throat bright coppery 

 green ; a broad zone on the breast of violet-purple, followed by 

 a narrow one of dull greyish brown ; axillary tufts gamboge- 

 yellow ; abdomen, sides, and lower tail-covers dirty white ; beak 

 and legs black." — Ed. J 



91. Chalcomitra gutturalis (Linn.). Proteus Sun-bird. 

 Le Sucrier FroUe, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 296. fig. 2. 

 Nectarinia senegalensis, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 

 Orn. 1852, p. 153. 

 „ „ Layard's Cat. No. 133. 



Nectarinia natalensis, Layard's Cat. No. 134. 

 Nectarinia senegalensis, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 407. 

 Chalcomitra gutturalis, Gray's Hand-list of Bii-ds, No. 1307. 

 Nectarinia gutturalis, Sharpe's Oat. No. 364. 



This species occurs at Lake Ngami, and is pretty- 

 abundant in the neighbourhood of the Okavango. In 

 Damara Land proper it is not common ; but in June 1866 

 I obtained several specimens at Objimbinque, where 

 they seemed chiefly to seek their food amongst the 

 " tobacco" trees now growing so abundantly in the bed and 



