J96 AMETHYST-THROATED SUN-BIRD. 
coronal and gular patch ; before the first moult, or 
in the nestling plumage, however, these are want- 
ing. In the female, according to Le Vaillant, the 
upper parts are of an olive-brown, the throat and 
fore part of the neck black, and the remaining 
under parts olive, spotted or broadly streaked with 
deep brown. 
Le Vaillant first met with this bird in the country 
of the Auteniquoi, afterwards on the river Gamtoos, 
and considers that it remains in the southern part 
of the continent during the whole year. Our own 
specimens of the adult male, which have now been 
used, were received from some part of Southern 
Africa, though we do not know the exact locality. 
Mr. Swainson has also admitted it into his Birds ot 
Western Africa, so that we may consider its range 
pretty extensive. Le Vaillant states that he found 
the nest in thickest bushes, and in the holes in 
trees ; the eggs being five in number, grey, spotted 
with olive. 
