6. CINNYBIS. 37 



e. c? ad. sk. Algoa Bay, November. R. E. Sharpe, Esq. 



/. </■ 6 9 f-d. sk. Knysna (Aiulersson). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



/i. cJ ad. sk. Elands Post (T.^toiore). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



i, k. (S ad. sk. Natal. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



/. cS ad. moulting sk. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 



m. cS ad. sk. Zambesi {Melhr). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Subsp. a. Cinnyris chalybea. 



Le Grimpereau a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Orn. iii. 

 p. 643, pi. 32. fig. 1 (ITlJOj. 



Certhia chalybea, Linn. S. iV: i. p. 186, no. 10 (1766) ; P. L. S. Mull. 

 S. X. ii. p. 257, no. 10 (1773) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 475 (1788) ; Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. i. p. 284 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 196, pi. 28. 

 fig. 1(1811). 



Grimpereau du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Dauhent. PI. Enl, 246. fig. 3 

 (1770-86). 



Soui-manga a collier, JBi(ff. Hist. Ois. \. p. 502 (1778) ; Aud. et Vieill. 

 Ois. Dor. ii. pp. 32, 34, pis. 13, 14 (1802). 



Collared Creeper, Lath. Gen. Si/n. B. ii. p. 709, no. 10 (1782) ; id. 

 Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 247, no. 40 (1822). 



Certhia chalybea, Shcno &,■ Nodd, Nat. Misc. x. pi. 381 (1799). 



Jeune Soui-manga, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 47, pi. 26 (1802). 



Sucrier a double collier, Levaill. Ois. d''Afr. yi. p. 178; Sundev. Krit. 

 Framst., Levaill. p. 57 (1857). 



Cinnvris chalybeus, Cuv. Begne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817) ; Vieill. N. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 498 (1819) ; id. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 585 

 (1823); Swains. Zool. Lll. pi. 95 (1820-33); Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. 

 p. 22 (1828) ; Hahn, Fd</.pt. 16, pi. 3 (1829) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. 

 i. p. 293, no. 6 (1831) ; Hahn, Orn. Ail. Cinnyris, p. 2, no. 2, pi. 2 

 (1834) ; Sivains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 132 (1837) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 407, 

 no. 24 (1850^ ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 102, no. 559 (1850) ; Beichh. 

 Handb. Scansorice, p. 289, no. 668, pi. 575. figs. 3916-18 (1854) ; 

 Gurney in Andersson, B. Damara Land, p. 69 (1872) ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 314 (1876) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 425 ; 

 Shellet/, Monof/r. Nec'f. p. 253, pi. 78. 



Nectariliia chalybea, Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. 1. p. 221 (1822) ; Dra- 

 piez, Diet. Class, xv. p. 510 (1829) ; Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, 

 pp. 166, 284, pi. 1 (1843); Gray, Gen. B. i. -p. 97 (1847); Grill, 

 Zool. Anteehn. pp. 11, 39 (1858) ; Pelzeln, Eeise Novara, Vog. i. 

 p. 51 (1865); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 75, no. 122 (1867); Gur- 

 ney, Ibis, 1868, p. 43 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 106, no. 1282 

 (1869) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. pi. 39, no. 369 (1871) ; ShelUy, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 70 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 202. 



CinnATis capensis (nee im«.). Less. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 293, no. 7 

 (1831). 



Nectarinia intermedia, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1878, p. 3. 



In pattern of coloration very similar to C. afra, but the birds 

 are smaller, the crimson-red is confiined to a broad band across the 

 chest, the metallic grecu parts are strongly coppery green in posi- 

 tion B aud scarcely bluish. Outer pairs of tail-feathers with broad 

 pale edges and tips. Culmen 0-85 inch, wing 2-25, tail Vl , tar- 

 sus 0'65. 



Female. Underparts brownish buff, scarcely washed with yellow. 

 Wing 2-2-1 inches. 



