44 NECTARINIID^. 



lower back, and rump olive-grcj- ; greater wing-coverts and quills 

 dark brown, slightly edged with olive ; tail bluish black, edged with 

 metallic blue-green, outer pairs of feathers with pale tips. Culmen 

 0-7o inch, wing '2-'2, tail 1-55, tarsus 0*55. 



AduJt femaU'. Tail black ; all the other upper parts dark olive- 

 brown ; some of the smaller wing-coverts faintly edged with metallic 

 blue ; iinderparts j-ellow, washed with grc} ish and olive on the 

 fore neck, chest, and flanks. AViiig l-H.j inch. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



a. S ad. sk. N. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 



h,c. c? 2 ad. sk. N. ISIadagascar ( Crossley). \i. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d, e. 5 ad. sk. Madagascar. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



f. c? imm. sk. Madagascar. 11. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



g. cJad.sk. Mohambo, Madagascar. J. Gerrard, Esq. [C.J. 



SECOND GEOUP (Cinnyris). 



This group is composed of species which are generally dark in 

 plumage, especially on the underparts of the body, whilst the mantle, 

 head, and neck are metallic coloured. Pectoral tufts are present 

 only in the Asiatic species. Nares bare. — African and Indo- 

 Malayan. 



7. Cinnyris mariquensis, 



African Creeper, var. C, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. p. 127, no. 18 c (1787). 

 Certhia afra, var. y, Lath. Ind. Oni.'i. p. 287, no. 18 y (1790). 

 Cinnyi'is mariquensis. Smith, App. Hep. Uxp. S. Afr. p. 53 (18.36) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Luyard's B. S. Afr. p. 319 (1876) ; Shelley, Mmwgr. 



Nect. p. 211, pi. 65. 

 Nectarinia bifasciata, Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 174, 250, pi. 4 



(1843) ; Strickl. 4' Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 163 ; HaHl. Orn. W.- 



Afr. p. 46, no. 131 (1857) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 77, no. 126 



(1867) ; Chapman, Trav. S. Afr., App. p. 407 (1868). 

 Cinnyris bifasciatus, Eeichb. Hanclb. Scansorice, p. 389, no. 670, pi. 576. 



figs. 3920-21 (1854) ; Ay res. Ibis, 1871, p. 150; Gurney in Anderss. 



B. Dam. Ld. p. 70 (1872). 



C. osiris. 



Nectarinia jardinei, Blanf. Qiec Verr.) Geol. l^- Zool. Abyss, p. 352 

 (1870) ; Meuf/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 227 (1871) ; Finsch, Tr. Zool. 

 Sac. vii. pp. 230, 314 (1872). 



Nectarinia osiris, Finsch, torn. cit. p. 230. 



Cinnyris osiris, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 215, pi. 64. fig. 1. 



C. erythroceria. 



Nectarinia erytbrocerca, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 20 

 (1856) ; Jiartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p.*270 (1857). 



Nectarinia erythroceria, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 261 ; id. Reise iveiss. 

 Nil, p. 337 (1869) ; Finsch &■ Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. pp. 219, 861, 

 pi. 2. hg. 2 (1870); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 226 (1871). 



