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RED-BREASTED SUN-BIRD. 
Nectar inia pulchella, Linn^US. 
PLATE XVIII. 
Le Vaillant gives Senegal as the country of this 
Sun-bird, stating that it is also found in Southern 
Africa, but not beyond the “ Great River” in the 
Cafifre country, where it frequents the forests ; Mr. 
Swainson, in his Birds of Western Africa above 
quoted, remarks that it “ seems to be particularly 
common in Senegal, from whence great numbers 
have been recently sent to Europe as articles of 
commerce and we have ourselves received speci- 
mens which appear identical, and which have sup- 
plied the accompanying figure and description, from 
the vicinity of Sierra Leone. The adult male is 
both above and below of a rich golden-green, upon 
the crown, throat, and breast seeming more in- 
tense from the structure of the feathers. The centre 
of the breast is crossed by a bright collar of yel- 
lowish carmine red, shading off upon the belly into 
gamboge-yellow, and there running to a point along 
the centre ; the vent, wings, and tail are black, 
under tail-coverts tipped with shining bluish green ; 
the centre tail-feathers or long coverts are black, 
edged at the base with the green of the upper parts. 
