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CEYLON YELLOW-BELLIED SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia Zeylonica, Linnaeus. 
PLATE XX. 
The Certhia Zeylonica of Linnaeus, sent by Gover- 
nor Loten from Ceylon, refers to the bird we linve 
now represented ; but the synonym of that illustri- 
ous naturalist is erroneous, and, though printed by 
him with a ?, it has been continued to many of the 
descriptions which have since been given of the bird, 
and has kept up the confusion; in our Synopsis 
will be found what we consider as belonging to it. 
We have received the inales from various parts 
of Continental India, where it seems pretty gene- 
rally distributed and far from uncommon ; but we 
have never seen specimens from any of the East 
Indian islands, nor been able to compare those of the 
continent with a Ceylonese bird. Dr. Latham, on 
the authority of Dr. Buchanan, states that “ it is 
found in all the gardens near Calcutta, lives by 
sucking honey out of flowers, and will readily sip 
sugar and water.” “ The nest, suspended from the 
extreme branch of a tree, is almost of a globular 
shape, with a neck above somewhat like an alembic, 
and composed of fine fibres, with a round hole of 
entrance on one side, nearer the bottom than the 
middle.” Mr. Jerdon, who described it under the 
