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MRS. GOULD'S SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia Goiddia, Vigors. 
Belonging to the same group, in form and colour- 
ing, is the beautiful species which will now stand as 
the Ornithologist’s record of an accomplished artist. 
The N. Gouldice was dedicated to Mrs. Gould by 
the friend of her husband, at a time when she had 
shown how much could be effected by the union of 
taste and skill with a fine mechanical invention, 
and had produced a series of ornithological figures 
which could vie with the best that had preceded 
them, aud were excelled only by those which ap- 
peared in her later works. 
“ The top of the head, ear-coverts, throat, a spot 
on each side of the chest near the shoulder, tail- 
coverts, and two middle tail-feathers, are of a rich 
metallic-blue with brilliant purple reflections ; the 
back and sides of the neck and shoulders are deep 
sanguineous red ; the rump and under surface bright 
yellow, the latter having a few sanguineous dashes ; 
the quills and outer tail-feathers dark brown.” The 
above is the description given by Mr, Gould of this 
beautiful species, from a specimen at the time con- 
sidered unique. On examining that specimen in 
the collection of the Zoological Society of London, 
