168 LESSEE DOUBLE-COLLARED SUN-BIED. 
under tail-covers ; from the sides of the breast, on 
each side of the red band, spring tufts of king’s- 
yellow, the feathers composing which are rather 
longer than those covering the flanks. The wings 
and tail are blackish-brown glossed with green, 
in some specimens hair-brown, which chiefly occurs 
in birds before the change of breeding-plumage 
takes place. The upper tail-covers are rich violet- 
purple. 
A female from Southern Africa is in length about 
four inches four-tenths. The colour of the whole 
plumage is a brocoli-brown, darker on the wings 
and tail, and much paler in shade on the under 
parts ; bill and legs brownish black. 
To exhibit the distinctions we have alluded to in 
the above description, and also to represent another 
very beautiful bird of this form, we give a figure of 
the “ Sucrier a plastron rouge of Le Vaillant,” un- 
der the title of 
