CARMELITE SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia fulyinosa, Shaw. 
PLATE XIV. 
This apparently not very well known species does 
not seem common in our collections ; there is a 
specimen in the British Museum, another in the 
Collection at Edinburgh, from which our figure has 
been taken, and Mr. Strickland has obliged us with 
the use of a specimen from among his Nectari- 
niadas, from which we have made our description. 
The body, above and below, is uniform pale yel- 
lowish umber-brown, the wings and tail consider- 
ably darker, and with a slight purple reflection ; 
the forehead has an imbricated patch of auricula 
purple, extending to the line of the eyes and the 
chin, throat, and fore part of the neck, forming the 
gular patch, with the lesser wing-covers or radial 
edges of the wings, are of the same colour ; the 
axillary tufts are bright primrose-yellow. The en- 
tire length about five inches. The female is said to 
want the coronal patch. 
Malemba, on the west coast of Africa, is given by 
Vieillot as the locality of this species, but we are 
not aware where those which have come under our 
own observation have been received. 
