50 HECTAMNIID^. 



Adult male. Similar to C. snperha, but the crown uniform in 

 colour with the other metallic upper parts ; sides of head and 

 throat metallic brilliant green ; across the chest a broad dark baud 

 of violet or purplish blue ; breast blood-red, with sulphur-yellow 

 pectoral tufts ; abdomen and rest of underparts sooty black. 



Ohs. ^[auy of the feathers of the chest have a narrow violet 

 metallic bar, which separates the black basal half from the red ter- 

 minal half of the feathers. 



Female. Above olive-brown ; tail blackish brown, tipped with 

 white ; all the feathers of the underparts with a longitudinal central 

 streak ; fore neck, chest, and under wing-coverts whitish ; under tail- 

 coverts dingy yellow. 



S . Culmen 1-3 inch, wing 2-6-2-8, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-65, 



?. „ 1-2 „ „ 2-5, „ 1-2, „ 0-61. 



Hah. From Sierra Leone to Gaboon. 



a. c? ad. sk. Y a.ntQe {Ussher). R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Abouri, Aguapini, March 6, R. B. Shaipe, Esq. 



1872 [Shelley). 



c. (S ad. sk. Gaboon ( y^erreaux). R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 



d. cS imm. sk. Gaboon ( Verreaux). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



11. Cinnyris splendida. 



? Crimson-bellied Creeper, Lath. Geti. Stjn. Suppl. ii. p. 164 (1801) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 246 (1822). 

 ? Certbia coccinigastra, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 35 (1801) ; Shaw, 



Gen. Zool. viii. p. 216 (1811). 

 L'Eclatant, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 15, pi. 2 (1802). 

 Le Soui-manga a plumes soyeuses, Aud. et Vieill. t. c. p. 119, pi. 82. 

 Sucrier eblouissaut, Levaill. Ois. dAfr. vi. p. 163, pi. 295. fig. 1. 

 Certhia splendida, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 191, pi. 26 (1811). 

 Certhia nitida, Beclist. Kurze Uehers. p. 191 (1812 ). 

 Certhia sericea, id. t. c. p. 194. 

 Cinnyris splendidus, Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet, a Hist. Nat. sxxi. p. 500 (1819) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Ene. Meth. 



ii. p. 587 (1823) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 41 (1828) ; Swains. B. 



W. Afr. ii. p. 125 (1837) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 408 (1850) ; Cah. Mas. 



Hein. i. p. 101 (1850) ; Reichenb. Handb. Scansor. p. 287, pi. 574. 



figs. 3908-9 (1854) ; Shelletj, Monogr. Nect. p. 201, pi. 62. 

 Cinnyris splendens, Vieill. N. Diet. d''Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 501 (1819) ; 



Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 41 (1828) ; Reichetib. Handb. Scansor. 



p. 290, pL 576. fig. 3925 (1854). 

 Cinnyris bombicinus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 509 ; Bonn. 



et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 596 (1823) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 53. 

 ? Cinnyris coccinigaster, Vieill. t. c. p. 515 ; Bonn, et Vieill. t c. 



p. 588 ; Less. t. c. p. 55. 

 Blue-rumped Creeper, var. C, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 240 (1822). 

 Glossy Creeper, Lath. t. c. p. 253. 

 Nectarinia splendida, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv. p. 511 (1829) ; Jard. 



Mo7iogr. Sun-birds, pp. 176, 250, pi. 5 (1842) ; Pucheran, Rev. et 



Maq. Zool. 1853, p. 486; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 46 (1857) ; id. J. 



f. 6. 1861, p. 108; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 82 (1867); ReicJmiow, 



J. f. O. 1875, p. 30. 



