170 GREATER DOEBLE-COLLARED SUN-BIRD. 
is entirely of a greenish hair-brown, paler on the 
nnder parts, and having a yellowish tint on the 
chin, vent, and nnder tail-coverts, — the wings, tail, 
and crown of the head being a few shades darker. 
These specimens, received from Southern Africa, 
were collected by Dr. Smith. 
According to Le Vaillant this species does not 
reach nearer to the southern point of Africa than 
where the extensive forests of the eastern coast ter- 
minate ; but it stretches into Caffraria, and also to 
the Gamtoos and Sondag rivers. It frequents the 
forests, sometimes also descending to the plains, con- 
structs a nest in the hollow of some tree, and lays 
from four to five eggs of a bluish white colour, 
marked with tawny. 
During the rainy season, or when the time of in- 
cubation is past, the same traveller states that the 
male assumes exactly the dress of the female, ex- 
cept that the vent is of a more yellow tint, and that 
the axillary tufts, which the female never possesses, 
are preserved. The young of both sexes are of a 
reddish grey above, olive beneath, and on the throat 
whitish. 
