RED-COLLARED STTNBIRD. 
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kept with difficulty, existing entirely on sugar and 
water.* We know of no other author who mentions 
this extraordinary fact, the only instance on record 
of a tenuirostral bird being gifted with a musical 
voice. 
In size, this species is rather smaller than the 
C. Senegalemis. The whole of the head, neck, 
throat, and back is shining green, with a rich 
gilded gloss : this colour is bounded, on the breast, 
by a narrow collar of blue, which has a very slight 
greenish tinge : and this, again, is followed by ano- 
ther of scarlet a little broader, and extending more 
round the sides of the breast : there is also a tuft, 
under each wing, of pure yellow feathers : the rest 
of the body and under plumage is of a smoky brown, 
paler on the vent and under tail-covers : the upper 
tail-covers are banded with greenish-blue, nearly of 
the same tint as the baud on the breast : the wings 
are brown ; and the tail, bill, and feet, blackish. 
Total length, ; bill, ; wings, 2 T 2 C ; tail, 
from the base, 2; tarsus, T 6 0 . 
* Barrow’s Travels in Africa, 4to, p. 62. 
