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FINE-BACKED SUN-BIRD. 
Nedarinia mbro-fusca, Shaw. 
Specimens identical with the bird we are now about 
to describe from our own collection occur in the 
British Museum, the Museum of the Zoological 
Society, and at Fort Pitt, Chatham, but all without 
any name attached. We have referred it to the 
species of Shaw above named, and consequently to 
the bird figured by Mr. Swainson in the Birds of 
Western Africa. Its other synonymes will be found 
in our Synopsis, and we would merely observe, that 
all the specimens we have examined are very close 
and similar in their markings and the tints on the 
plumage. 
The length of our specimen is about four inches 
eight-tenths, and it is a bird of rather slender make. 
The crown, back, and sides of the neck are of a rich 
reddish purple, with a bronzed or coppery lustre ; 
the middle of the back, the rump, and upper tail 
coverts, rich auricula-purple with a changing lustre, 
richest on the coverts, and losing itself upwards in 
the tint of the head and neck ; the chin, throat, and 
upper parts of the breast are of a shade intermediate 
between these, the purple prevailing, and all the 
other parts of the plumage are deep black, tinted 
