34 NECTARINIID^. 



V. 



1 ijuttundis, p. 91. 



a. Fore ueck and chest brilliiuit red I cnientata, p. 93. 



( seneyalensis, p. 94. 



b. Fore neck and chest dark brown or black. 



a'. Pectoral tufts ftdiginosa, p. 95. 



b'. No pectoral tufts. , ,, ,- ^n 



a". (5rown gre.u ; throat purple cmiethyshna,ip.9Q. 



b". Forehead, throat, and fore neck green ; a few ' '^"'^'; P- «^'- 



purple and red feathers on the chest auffolensis, p. 98. 



c. Upper throat and a narrow band across the chest 



black ; lower throat and fore neck cream-colour . . adalberti, p. 99. 



FIRST GROUP (C. venusta, &c.). 



The species of this group have the mantle, head, and neck 

 metallic coloured. The underparts are generally of bright colours, 

 and are ornamented with pectoral tufts. The chest always diifers 

 from the breast iu coloration. JS^ares bare.— African. 



1. Cinnyris chloropygia. 



Soiu-manga a collier noir, Aud, et Vieill. Ois. Dor, ii. p. 117, pi. 80 



(1802). 

 Nectarinia chloropygia, Jard. Ann. Nat. Hist. x. p. 188 (1842) ; 



id. ($• Selby, Musi. Orn. n. s. pi. 50 (1842) ; Jard. Monogr. Sun- 

 birds, pp. 171, 249, pi. 3 (1843); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 97 (1847) ; 



Allen §• Thompson, Exped. Niger, ii. App. p. 503 (1848) ; Jard. 



Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 151 ; Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 315 ; 



Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 47, no. 135 (1857) ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 



1859, p. 35, no. 39; Slunpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 188; Grai/, JIand-l. B. 



i. p. 108, no. 1316; Sliarpe, P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 133,'609, 615; id. 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 39, no. 370 (1871); Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 60; 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1860, p. 109 ; Heine, torn. cit. p. 136 ; Beichenow, 



J. f. O. 1875, p. 31 ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche Sfc. p. 13 ; Rei- 



cheiioio, J.f. O. 1877, p. 25 ; Bocage, Orn. d' Angola, p. 170 (1877). 

 Cinnyris chloropygius, B}}. C. A. i. p. 407, no. 31 ; lieichb. Handb. 



Sclmsorice, p. 290, no. 675, pi. 577. figs. 3926,3927 (1854) ; Shelley, 



Monogr. Nect. p. 257, pi. 79. 

 Anthodiaeta chloropygia, Bp. Cotnptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265 ; Oust. 



Bull. Sac. Philom. 7th ser. i. p. 106 (1877) ; id. Nouv. Arch. Mus. 



i. p. 87 (1878). 



Closely allied to C. chahjhea, but with the entire tail bluish black ; 

 the upper tail-coyerts are dark green in position B, dark blue in C. 

 The other metallic parts are as in C. clialyhea ; the narrow blue 

 pectoral band is in most specimens almost entirely suppressed, only 

 a few of the green feathers showing a dark-blue gloss iu position C ; 

 the scarlet extends down the centre of the upper breast : pectoral 

 tufts yery largely deyeloped; rest of underparts ashy brown, 

 strongly washed with olive-yellow. 



Adult female. Above olive-brown: tail blackish, with pale edges; 

 upper throat dull white ; under wing-coverts aud edge of wing 



