Volume 36, Plate VIII / Ornithology (Birds)

Namaqua, or White-Vented Sun-Bird

Nectarinia fusca

A species of the Great Namaqua country, found there throughout the year, its crown, neck and back purplish brown with metallic purple or greenish reflections, the rump clove-brown, tail-coverts steel-blue and the tail blackish brown glossed with blue, with white on the vent and under tail-coverts and bright orpiment-orange tufts at each axilla. From four and a half to four and three-fourths inches, it nests in hollow trunks and lays four or five greyish eggs.