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LITTLE VIOLET-BANDED SUN-BIRD. 
Nedarinia parvula, Jardine. 
PLATE VII. 
We have been permitted to examine a specimen of 
a Sun-bird very closely allied to the last, by the at- 
tention of H. E. Strickland, Esq., evidently identical 
with the N. pusilla of Swainson’s Birds of Western 
Africa ; the name given to it by that author, 
however, having been previously used both by Lin- 
naeus and Yieillot, we have endeavoured to sup- 
ply it with another bearing a meaning somewhat 
similar. In size it is rather less than N. collaris ; 
in length, so far as we can measure from the skin, 
being between three and a quarter and three inches 
and a half ; that of the hill, to the forehead, about 
six-tenths. The crown, cheeks, hack and sides of 
the neck, back and rump, are. of a bronzed green, 
not so yellow in tint as in the last ; the forehead is 
violet, gradually shading into the green of the other 
upper parts ; the upper tail-covers steel-blue ; tail 
black, margined on the outer webs with green. The 
wings clove-brown ; quills and secondaries edged 
with olive. Beneath, the chin is black ; fore part 
of the neck bluish green, terminating in a distinct 
