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SCARLET-BELLIED SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia affinis, Shaw. 
PLATE XX 
The specimen from which the drawing of our plate 
was made agrees with the figure and description of 
the bird represented by Temminck as the “ Soai- 
manga (i ventre ecerlate" with the “ Souimanga a 
gorge violette” of the Ois. dor., and with Dr. La- 
tham’s C. sperata, yar. B. ; but it differs from the 
“ Certhia philippensis purpurea” of Brisson, from 
which all the descriptions of the Certhia sperata, 
Linnams, are taken, in the green colour of the 
coronal patch and lower back, with the upper tail- 
covers ; by Brisson, these parts are said to be 
violet. Brisson’s bird was from the Philippine 
Islands, and so also is Temminck’s specimen ; and 
it may remain a question whether there is some 
mistake in the description of Brisson, handed down 
through a variety of volumes, or that there are two 
distinct and closely allied birds, the one with the 
coronal patch and tail-coverts violet, as in Brisson’s 
bird, or with these parts green, as in Sonnerat and 
Temminck’s specimens. 
This very beautiful species has the whole crown, 
running to the hind-head, green, with golden reflec- 
