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SYNOPSIS. 
edged with green. — Below , throat, fore part of neck, and upper 
breast, intense emerald-green; lower breast with a collar of 
yellowish carmine-rcd, shading upon the belly into gamboge- 
yellow, and running to a point along the centre ; sides of the 
belly golden-green ; flanks, vent, and und. t.-covers, black, — 
the latter tipped with bluish-green ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. 
Length, Gin. 2-10ths ; of bill to forehead, G-lOths ; oflong. quill, 
2 in. 3-10ths ; long, t.-feathers exceed the square tail 2-10ths. 
Hab. S. Africa, but not within the Great River in the Kafir 
country. Senegal, Le Vaill., Sw. Sierra Leone, Dr. W. Fer- 
gusson. 
N. platura, Vieillot, 1823. 
Ze Souimanga figuier , Chi. platuims, Yicill. Enc. Mcth. 
Om. p. 589, 1823 . — Ze Sucrier figuier , Le Vaill. Ois. 
d’Afr. vi. p. 157, pi. 293. — The Sacchanne Crcepei \ 
Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 225. — Nect. sylvidla, Temm. 
PI. Col. Note to pi. 347, and Ind. 
5 Above, head, neck, back, scapulars, and w. -covers green with 
bronze and purple lustre ; rump and t.-covers, violet-purple ; 
w. brownish black ; tail square, centre feathers only elongated, 
black, — the latter broadly edged with violet-purple, at the tips 
slightly spatulate Below , throat, fore part of neck and upper 
breast, duck-grecn ; lower breast, belly, vent, and und. t-covers, 
saffron-yellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. — Length, GJ in. ; 
of bill to forehead, 4-10ths; of w. to long, quill, 2 in. 2 or 
3-10tlis ; long, feathers exceed the square tail 2 in. 6 or 7-10ths. 
Dab. Forests of the Great Namaquois, Ze Vaill. Sierra 
Leone, Dr. W. Fergusson. — Dote. Specimens vary in the pro- 
portion of the purple reflection on the upper plumage, and in 
the depth of the yellow below. Those from W. Africa show 
greatest degree of purple and deeper yellow. 
N. metallica, Lichtenstein, 18 — . 
Nectarinia metallica , Schillcrudcr Honigsauger, Cretz. 
Rupp. At. zu der Reise in Nord. Af. Vog. 10. Taf. 7, 
1826 ; Hemp. & Elirenb. Symb. Phys. av. pi. 1. — Soui- 
manga metallique , N. metallica , Temm. PI. Col. 347, 
figs. 1,2. 
