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LITTLE YELLOW-BELLIED SUNBIRD. 
Cinnyris pusilla, Swains. 
Above copper-green, beneath yellow, front, chin, throat and 
breast, purple-violet ; throat with a green hand ; upper tail- 
covers blue-green. 
Our description and notice of this diminutive spe- 
cies, which only measures four inches, must he 
shorter than we could wish ; we have not a speci- 
men before us, and we can therefore only transcribe 
the short account we drew up of one in the Chatham 
Museum, sent there with many other birds from 
the Gambia. It is a very small typical species, with 
the tail rounded on the sides and slightly forked in 
the middle : the bill is much curved and greatly 
compressed, and the fourth and fifth quills are long- 
est : across the throat is a collar of copper-green, 
from which part, to half way down the abdomen, the 
colour is rich violet, but ending in blackish : all the 
remaining under plumage is clear straw-yellow: 
side-feathers pure yellow tipt with bright orange- 
red : wings brown : tail glossy blue-black edged with 
shining blue-green. 
Total length, 4 inches ; bill, ; wings, 2 I 1 3 ; 
tail beyond, ^ ; ditto base, 1 1 , ; tarsus, 
