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are solely black : tbe third, and two following quills, 
are all of the same length. 
Total length, 3^ inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; 
wings, 21 ; tail beyond, 1 /- 5 ; tarsus, T e 5 . 
LINEATED, OR SENEGAL SUNBIRD. 
Cinnyris Senegalensis , Cuvier. 
Front and chin cmerald-grcen ; throat and breast scarlet, 
transversely lineated with purple ; body black ; wings cin- 
namon-brown. 
Certliia Senegalensis, Linnceus . — Cinnyris Senegalensis, Cu- 
vier . — Le Sou i -manga violet a poitrine rouge, Vieill. Ois. 
d'Or. ii. 8 Le Sucrier-Protee, Le Vaill. Ois. cVAf vi. 
pi. 295, f. 2. 
This superb species is only inferior in richness of 
colouring to the last. It is probably one of the most 
common birds of Senegal, as scarcely any collection 
imported from that country does not contain several 
specimens ; it is seldom, however, that these are in 
the fine and perfect plumage of the adult male. 
Le Vaillant, who found this species also in Caf- 
fraria, relates a singular habit belonging to the male. 
It appears, that on ordinary occasions, when the 
bird is in his full plumage, the blue lines which 
cross the middle of the breast-feathers are scarcely 
