48 XECTARINIID.'E. 



seen from above has the appearance as represented in the wood- 

 cut : this prolongation seems to be carried out to an extreme in 

 C. erythroceria. 



a. (S ad. sk. Gaboon ( Verreau.i). R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Gaboon. Purchased. 



c,d. cJad.sk. Congo. ComraanderSpevhng[P.]. 



e,f. (S ad. sk. Angola {Monteiro). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



g^h. 5 ad. sk. Ambriz, March 1869. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. 



Small Eastern Race (C. microrhyncha). 



a. S ad. sk. Dar-es-Salam, Zanzibar. Messrs. Moir [C.]. 



(Type of C. microrhyncha.) 

 b,c. [ cj ] imm. ; Mombasa ( Wakefield). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 

 e. (S ad. sk. Mombasa. Rev. H. Fowell Buxton. 



8. Cinnyris comorensis. 



Cinnyi'is comorensis, Peters, J. f. 0. 1864, p. 161 ; Shelley, Monogr. 



Nect. p. 221, pi. 68. 

 Nectarinia comorensis, Sclat. Ibis, 1864, pp. 297, 299 ; Hartl. Vog. 



Madag. p. 93 (1877) ; E. Ncivton, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 297, 302. 



Adult male. Head and neck all round, mantle, back, and tail rich 

 metallic green ; remiges, greater ■\ving-coverts, breast, and abdomen 

 sooty black ; a maroon-red collar surrounding the chest ; bright 

 orange-red pectoral tufts. Culmen 0-75 inch, wing 2-2, tail 1-65, 

 tarsus 0*65. 



Female. Upper parts olive ; wings and tail blackish brown, the 

 latter narrowly tipped with whitish ; underparts pale olive-yellow, 

 inclining to whitish on the throat and under tail-coverts ; dark 

 centres of the feathers of the throat partially visible. 



Hah. Joanna, Comoro Islands. 



9. Cinnyris superba. 



Le Sougnimbindou, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 44, pi. 22 (1802). 

 Certhia superba, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 193 (1811) ; id. Xat. Misc. 



XX. pp. 316, 865 (1847). 

 Certhia sugnimbindu, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 193, no. 80 (1812). 

 Cinnyris superbus, Cuv. Rbgne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 512, pi. 20. fig. 3 (1819); Bonn, et 



Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 597 (1823) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 408, no. 34 



(1850) ; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 197, pi. 60. 

 Violet-throated Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 257, no. 58 



(1822). 

 Cinnyris sugnimbindou. Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 48 (1828). 

 Cinnyris sanguineus. Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 296, no. 18 (1831) ; 



Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 487. 

 Nectarinia superba, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv. p. 514 (1829) ; Jard, 



Monogr. Sun-birds, p. 275 (1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 97 (1847) ; 



Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 133 ; Verr. Rev. et Maq. Zool. 1851, 



p. 316, 1855, p. 611; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. '45, no. 127 



(1857) ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 37 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 107, no. 1313 (1869) ; Sharpe, lUs, 1870, p. 52; id. P. Z.S. 



