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RED-COLLARED SUNBIRD. 
Cinnyris chalyhea , Cuvier. 
Green gold ; breast with a double collar of blue and crimson, 
the sides yellow j body beneath, grey ; upper tail-covers, 
greenish-blue. 
Certliia ebalybea, Linnteus, Audorum Cinnyris chalybca, 
Zool. must. 1st Series, pi. 95 Le Sou'i-mnnga a collier, 
Vieilt, Ois.d'Or. ii. pi. 13, 14 Collared creeper of authors. 
This beautiful species, easily distinguished by its 
two collars, one of blue the other of red, we have 
already figured in the first series of the Zoological 
Illustrations ; and we are glad to perceive that the 
nomenclature, there recommended, for the different 
groups of this family, have been universally adopted 
by our best ornithologists. The present species, 
which is a typical Cinnyris, appears to occur both 
in Western and Southern Africa ; but it must not 
be confounded, as has recently been done, with the 
Sucrier d plastron rouge of Le Vaillant, an error 
which, from having been pointed out more than fif- 
teen years ago, we did not expect to see revived. It 
was probably Le Yaillant’s bird which Barrow mis- 
took for Linnseus’s chalyhea; of which he says 
that it sings delightfully in the cage, where it is 
