6. ciNNrKis. 47 



/3. North-eastern Race (C, osiris). 

 0. c? ad. sk. Bogos Laud (Usler). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



p. dad.sk. Undul, Abyssinia, 5000 feet, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



April 1868. [C.]. 



y. Central Race (C. erythroceria). 

 q. 6 ad. sk. White Nile. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Subsp. a. Cinnyris bifasciata. 



Soui-manga vert et bnin, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. d. 46. nl 24 



(1802). ^ ' ^ 



Certliia bifasciata, Shmv, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 198 (1811, ex Aud. et 



Vieill.}. 

 Cinnyris nitens, Vieill. N. Diet. xxxi. p. 514 (1819) ; Botm. et Vieill. 



Enc. Meth. ii. p. 588 (1823) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 47 (1828). 

 Violet-breasted Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 248. no 41 



(1822). 

 Nectarinia nitens, Draptez, Diet. Class, xv. p. 515 (1829). 

 Nectarinia bifasciata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 97 (1847) ; Bocage. Orn. 



dAn(/ola, p. 168 (1877). 

 Cinnyiis bifasciatus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 407, no. 32 (1850) ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 322 (1876) ; Shelley, Monoyr. Kevt. 



p. 217, pi. 66. 

 Nectarinia jardinei, Vei-r. in Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 47, no 133 



(1857) ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 109; Bocaye, Jam. Lisb. i. p.' 135, 



no. 35 (1866) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 566 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 



1870, p. 340, 1876, p. 262 ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 25. 



a. C. microrhyncha. 

 Nectarinia jardinei (nee Verr.), Hartl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 824 ; Finsch 



8f Hartl. Toy. Osl-Afr. p. 218, pi. 2. fig. 1 (1870) : id. p. 861 



(1870) ; Fischer S,- Reichen. J.f. O. 1878, p. 260. 

 Cinnyris jardinei. Cab. in Von der Decken, Reis. Ost-Afr iii r. 29 



no. 23 (1869) ; id. J.f O. 1878, p. 227. ■ i'- > 



Cinnyris microrhynchus, Shelley, 3Iono(/r. Nect. p. 219 pi 67- 



Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 355 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 570. ' 



Adult male. Smaller aud darker than C. mariquensis. Distribu- 

 tion of colours the same as in the latter species. Metallic parts 

 blackish green -vnth. a coppery gloss, \vhich in position C changes 

 into purplish blue ; the chest very dark red, this colour being only 

 very little developed, as in C. osiris ; breast and abdomen deep black • 

 bill long and slender. ' 



Female. All the underparts pale yellow, and not mottled with any 

 trace of brown. 



Hab. Gaboon to Eenguela. 



Obs. Along the Zanzibar coast occurs a small eastern form 

 C. microrhynclia. ' 



Ohs. In the birds of the C. mariquensis group there seems to be 

 a teudeQcy in the central tail-feathers to become narrower and 

 longer than the rest. In both C. bifasciata and in the typical 

 southern C. mariquensis some specimens show this peculiarity In 

 one fully adult male from the Transvaal ^Ayres), the tail when 



