80 NECTAKINIID.E. 



Adult male. Crown and sides of head, hind neck, and back 

 brownish olivo ; wiug-covcrts and quills dark brown, narrowly edged 

 with olive ; tail bluish black, the outer pairs of feathers with pale 

 ends ; some of the upper tail-coverts metallic bluish green ; whole 

 fore neck and chest black metallic, dark blue in positions B and C ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; pectoral tufts and sides 

 whitish yeUow ; rest of the underparts duU yellow ; breast strongly 

 washed with olive-brown. Culmen 0-7-0-8 inch, wing 2-45, tail 

 2-1, tarsus 0-80. 



Female. Similar to the male, but with the throat olive. Wing 

 2-30 inches. 



Hab. llha do Principe, or Princes' Island, W. Africa. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Princes' Island (Dr. Dohrn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. (S ad. sk. Princes' Island (Keidemans). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



38. Cinnyris verticalis. 



Ash-belhed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Sujjpl. p. 130, no. 51 (1787) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. B. iv. pp. 261, 262, no. 66, 66 var. a (1822). 

 Certhia verticalis. Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 198, no. 57 (1790) ; Shatv, 



Gen. Zool. viii. p. 214 (1811). 

 Soui-manga a tete bleue, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 23, pi. 7 



(1S02). _ ... 



Soui-manga vert et gi-is, Aud. et Vteill. torn. cit. p. 47, pi. 25 ; Vteill. 



N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. sxxi. p. 515 (1819) ; Drapiez, Diet. Class. 



XV. p. 515 (1829) ; Swains. B. W. Afr.n. p. 137 (1837). 

 Certhia cyanocephala, Shaio, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 203 (1811). 

 Certhia dubia, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 193, no. 81. 

 Cinnvris cvanocephalus, Cvv. Regne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817) ; Vieill. 



N' Diet' d' Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 513 (1819) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 



Mcth. ii. p. 587 (1823); Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 48 (1828); 



id. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 295, no. 16 (1831) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 406, no. 4 



(1850). 

 Cinnvi-is dubius, Cm: Regne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817). 

 Blue-headed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 256, no. 54 (1822). 

 Cinnvris chloronotus, Sicains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 136, pi. 16 (1837) ; 



Allen Sf Thorns. Exp. Niger, ii. p. 221 (1848). 

 Nectarinia cvanocephala, Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 198, 254, 



pi. 10 (1842) ; id. Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. x. p. 187 (1842) ; 



Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. pp. 49, 271 (1857) ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 



18.-;9, p. 30. no. 41 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1860, p. 136, no. 80 ; id. P. Z. S. 



I860, p. 110 ; id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 109; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 108, 



no. 1325 (1869) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 188 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 37, no. 349 (1871) ; Shelley S^ Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1874, p. 306 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1 874, p. 58 ; Bouvier, Cut. Ois. 



Marcke ^-c. p. 14 (1875) ; Reichenoiv, J. f. O. 1875, p. 30, 1877, 



p. 25 ; Bocage, Orn. d" Angola, p. 171 (1877). 

 Nectarinia verticalis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847) ; Bp. C. A. 



i. p. 405 (1850); Haril Orn. W.-Afr. p. 50 (1857); Cass. Pr. 



Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 36, no. 46; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 109. 

 Cyanoniitra cyanocephala, Reichb. Handb. Scajisorice, p. 291, no 678, 



pi. 673. fig."3906 (1854) ; Oiistal. N. Arch. Mus. i. p. 89 (1878). 

 Leucochloridia verticalis, Reichb. torn. cit. p. 312, no. 731, ph 590, 



fig. 4002. 

 Cinnyris verticalis, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 301, pi. 97, 



