( •'"' ) 



ITiO. Cinuyris erythroceria (^Hniil). 



Fort George and Fort Gerry, in Torn. '• Iris dark brown." Adiilt males with 

 central rectrices fnlly 20 mm. longer. 



157. Cinnyris cuprea (Shaw). 



Kawolli and Mnbende in BneUnlla : Galabi ia Singo, Uganda. '• Iris dark 

 browTi." 



158. Cinnyris verticalis viridisplendens itcliw. 



Kaboa (BuekuIIa), I. 4. ISOO, Fort (Jerry, Torn. '-K 4. Ix'.t'.V The f.-niale has 

 the wing T mm. shorter than th'.' adult male. 



159. Cinnyris eboensis f-Iard.). 



1^4.'?, N'-cliinnkt ehnfihtis, Jardine, in Xiilniiilisls /.ibrari/, v. xvi. Swilinl^' \t. 244 ; ibUhm pi. iUt 

 and p. 25 f. under the name of .V. udfllifrli : 1889, Oimn/ris rasUnieiniiliis. Madarasz in Omit 

 T. V. p. 149, pi. 



The male diflers from ('. adidbi rti as follows : The wing-eoverts are uniform 

 deep olive-browu, not rnfons fawn-colour ; the abdomen is choe.olate-brown or very 

 nearly " burnt umber," not chestnut. The hindneck and back are not so l)lack ; the 

 throat is paler ; the crown is of a slightly more bluish, not so yellowish grten. 



The type of Nertarinia edoe/isin is still in the British JIusenm, where it was 

 apparently not noticed by the author of vol. IX. of the Cat. II Brit. .!///.<. This 

 18 the sole representative of the S2)ecies in the British Musenui. A friend of 

 mine suggested (in litt.) that both (\ atlrlbi'rti and <'. t'/jor /?.■</'.■< might have been 

 found by 8helley on the Gold Coast, as that ornithologist mentions specimens 

 with light and dark wings; but I have e.xamined these specimens iind found 

 them all to be typical ('. adelberti in more or less faded and worn plumage. We 

 have thus two sj)ecios of subspecies : ('. addherti from the Gambia to the Gold 

 Ck)ast, (\ eboen»i.i from the Niger to the Congo. I have e.xamined forty specimens of 

 C. adelberti and seven of C eboensis, sent by Dr. Felix Hoth from Warri in the 

 Niger Coast Protectorate, while Prof Reichenow tells me that he has it from the 

 Congo. It is strange that Dr. von Jladarasz redesrribed r. ,•/)w/'.^•/.•^. without even 

 referring to the name eboensis. 



100. Cinnyris acik aequatorialis Kchw. 



According to the measurements given by Reichenow (in Om. Moid/er. \ii\V.i 

 p. 171) the specimens from Kitagwetoa (Torn), Bntiti (Torn), Fort George (Torn), 

 Kahaugi (Torn), and those recorded from Masindi, in Unyoro, in Ansorge's Under 

 the African Sun p. 351, would all belong to the subspecies which he describes 

 as a species (!) from Bnkoba and the Sesse Islands. This form cannot be con- 

 sidered to be more than a subspecies, the dilFerenees in the size of the wings, 

 tail and bill not amounting to more than 3 or 4 mm., and other differences not 

 being apparent, and the two forms rejilaeing each other. 



On the same page (171) Prof lieicheuow also separates the southern (larger) 



• It is carioaa that this work, which should be coirectly cim.ted as above, is persis-tently riuole 1 a.i 

 Monograph «/ Svnhiiilx. a title which iloos not exist. 



