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PINE-BACKED SUN-BIRD, 
with blue on the wings and tail. On the hand of 
each wing there is a patch of rich violet-purple. 
There are no axillary tufts. 
By the attention of Mr. Louis Frazer, we are 
enabled to add a description of the female, from 
specimens procured at Cape Coast and. Accra, dur- 
ing the progress of the late Niger expedition, and 
forwarded to us for the use of the present volume. 
Plumage above, including the w T ings, dark brownish 
oil-green, deepest on the latter ; beneath, pale wax- 
yellow, clearest on the centre of the belly ; tail 
nearly black, the outer feathers tipped with grey. 
Length, three inches four-tenths ; of the bill to the 
forehead, six-tenths. 
Mr. Swainson’s specimens of his N. erythronotus 
were received from Senegal, and Vieillot’s N. tri- 
color, which we consider closely allied, if not iden- 
tical, was from Malemba. 
