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PECTORAL OR DARK-BREASTED SUN-BIRD. 
Nedarinia pectoralis, Horsfield. 
PLATE XXV. Fig. I. 
"We have specimens of this species from the collec- 
tion of the London Zoological Society, furnished to 
them by the East India Company, and procured 
from Java ; we give it, therefore, as identical with 
the bird described by Dr. Horsfield, and that figured 
by Temminck in the Planches Colonies ; it is also 
very near to the Certhia Philippensis olivacea of 
Brisson, and the Grimpereau olive des Philippines 
of Buffon, Planches Enluminies , but in neither the 
description of the one, nor the figure of the others, 
is the frontal patch of steel-blue indicated. 
The entire length of the specimen before us is 
within a tenth of four inches ; that of the bill to the 
forehead seven-tenths. Above, the plumage is dark 
yellowish oil-green, on the forehead a patch of steel- 
blue, extending backwards to a line with the exte- 
rior angle of the eye, and with a narrow streak of 
the rich colour passing over each ; wings umber- 
brown, feathers edged with yellow oil-green ; tail 
black, somewhat graduated, — the feathers, except 
the centre ones, tipped with white, on the outer to 
the extent of nearly half the feather. Underneath, 
