6. CINNYEIS. 43 



c. $ ad.sk. PortNatal(J. Fen'fiflM.r). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. (S mouitiug sk. Natal, Sept. . Dr. Gueinzius [0.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Bamaugwato, Oct. 13, T. E. Buckley, Esq. [P.]. 



1873. 

 /. S JHV. sk. Tete, Zambesi. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



(/. (S ad. sk. Zambesi (MeUer). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



h. ^ ad. sk. Damara Land, January R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



18(37 {Audersson). 

 i. S ad. sk. Elephant May, Sept. 12, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1859 {Andersson) . 

 k. (S ad. moulting sk. Ovaquenyama, June 6, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1867 {Andersson). 



5. Cinnyris oustaleti. 



Nectarinia albiventris ?, Bocar/e, Jorn. Lisboa, 1878, p. 208. 



Nectarinia ou^^taleti, Bocarje, torn. cit. p. 254. 



Cinnyris oiistaluti, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 231, pi. 72. fig. 1. 



Differs from C. leucogaster in having the metallic blue feathers of 

 the chest tipped with maroon-red, producing thus an indistinct 

 band of red across the chest ; pectoral tufts partly washed with 

 orange-red. Culmen 0-75 inch, wing 2-2, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-6. 



Hah. Benguela. 



6. Cinnyris souimanga. 



(Irimpereau violet de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 638, no 18 

 pi. 32. figs. 2, 3 (1760). 



Le Soui-manga, Month. Hist. Ois. v. p. 494 (1778) ; And. et Vieill. 

 Ois. Dor. ii. pp. 39, 41, pis. 18, 19 (1802). 



Violet Creeper, L<dh. Gen. Sijn. B. ii. p. 705, no. 7 (1781): id. Gen 

 Hist. B. iv. p. 222, no. 10 (1822). 



Certhia souimanga, G7nel. S. TV. i. p. 471 (1788). 



Certhia madagascai-iensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 282, no. 7 (1790) ■ 

 Shatv, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 208 (1811). 



Cinnvris madagascariensi.?, Cuv. liegne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817) ; Fieill. 

 N. Diet. (VHist. Xat. xsxi. p. 492 (1819) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 

 ^ Meth. ii. p. 5!)1 (1823) ; Less. Man. cFOrn. ii. p. 24 (1828). 



Nectarinia madagascariensis, Jard. Monogr. Sun-ljirds,-^. 276(1842). 



Cinnyris souimanga, Bjh C. A. i. p. 407, no. 18 (1850) ; Beichb. Handb 

 ScansoricB, p. 290, no. 676, pi. 577. figs. 3928^0 (1854) ; Shellei,, 

 Monogr. Nect. p. 245, pi. 76. k J , j, 



Nectarinia souimanga, Miill. J. f. O. 1855, p. 15, no. 157 ; E Xeu-ton 

 Hix, isi;:}, p. 342, pi. 13. fig." 1 (egg) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421 ;' 

 Grand. Bn\ ct Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 355 ; Schl. S,- Poll. Faun. Madau 

 p. 70 (1808) ; Hartl. Viig. Madag.^,. 87 {1817); Milm-Edtoards'Si- 

 Grand. Faun. Madag., Atlas, ii. pis. cv., cvi., cvii. a. 



A<UiU male. Head and neck all round and mantle verj- dark 

 metallic bluish green, passing into blue on the chest ; then follows 

 a narrow band of maroon-coloured feathers, then a broad crescent 

 of dull black feathers, occupying the centre of the upper breast ; 

 pectoral tufts bright yellow; rest of underparts dingy yellow^ 

 washed with pale olive ; under wing-coverts whitish : scapulars, 



