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NECTAHINIA OLIVACEA. 
Dr. Smith remarks, “ Only a very few speci- 
mens of this bird have yet been found in South 
Africa, and none, as far as I know, within the 
limits of the Cape colony. Kafirland, and the 
country east of it, towards Port Natal, furnishes 
the specimens wc possess. Like the other species 
of the group, it feeds upon small insects, and these it 
collects partly from the branches and leaves of brush- 
wood and dwarf trees, and partly from flowers.” 
The same author also adds a short notice of another 
species considered new, — 
NECTARINIA OLIVACEA, Smith. 
“ The colour of this species above is intermediate 
between grass-green and olive-green, the head being 
strongly tinged with blue ; below it is light yel- 
lowish green, with an orange tint on the throat, 
and on each axilla there is a small tuft of brilliant 
yellow feathers. Length from the base of the bill 
to the point of the tail five inches, length of the bill 
one inch three lines.” 
