CINNYRID.^. 



Le Sucrier-figuier ; male. Le VailL Ots. d' Afriq. v. vi. pi. 293. 

 y. 2. — Saccharine Creeper. Lath. Gen. Hist, v. iv, p. 225. 



Inhabits southern Africa. Length six inches : 

 the beak short and brown, very slightly bent : irides 

 chesnut: the head, neck, back, and wing-coverts 

 fine glossy changeable green-gold, with a coppery 

 tinge on the scapulars : rump and upper tail-coverts 

 glossy violet, changeable to purple, with a gloss of 

 polished steel in different lights : quills and tail 

 brownish-black, the two middle feathers exceed the 

 others in length by more than two inches ; and this 

 part is of a reddish gold-colour : all the under parts 

 from the breast jonquil yellow : legs brown. The 

 female is rather less, and has the belly yellow like 

 the male : head, beak and rump rufous-grey, with an 

 olive and gilded tinge : quills and tail grey-brown, 

 inclining to olive, but the latter wants the long 

 feather, as does also the male during the rainy 

 season. 



Sp. 34. Ci. mystacalis. 



Ci. coUo, guld, pedore dorsoque rubris j strigd versus basin rostri 

 utrinque, rectricibus, uropygio verticeque splendide metallico 

 violascentibusy ventre medio griseo. 



Sunbird with the neck, throat, breast, and back red ; a stripe at 

 the base of the beak on each side, the tail-feathers, rump, and 

 crown splendid metallic-violet j the belly grey in the middle* 



Nectarinia mystacalis. Temm. PI. Col. 126. J'. 3. 



Inhabits Java. About four inches in length : on 

 each side of the beak is a small whisker-like streak 

 of a very brilliant metallic-violet : the neck, the 

 breast, the throat, and the back are brilliant red : 

 the wings are ashy-black : the tail is long and much 



