6. CrNU YKIS. 



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Adult male. Head all round, sides of neck, fore neck, and upper 

 chest metallic blue, in position E ^vith a strong green lustre, especially 

 on the crown ; rest of upper parts olive-yellow ; inner web of quills 

 and tail brown ; all the underparts, including the under wing- 

 coverts, leaden grey ; pectoral tufts pale suljAur-yeUow ; bill and 

 feet black. 



Adult female. All the underparts grey ; under wing-coverts and 

 pectoral tufts white ; upper parts as iu the male. 



Youncj males have the crown of the head oUve-yellow ; throat 

 smoky grey or blackish ; rest of underparts grey, strongly washed 

 with dull yellow, especially on the chest. 



d- Culmen 1 ineh, wing 2-6, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-70. 



5 . Wing 2-3-2--i inches, tail l-UO, tarsus 0-65. 



Bah. West Africa, from Senegal to Angola. 



Ohs. This is the only species of Cinnyris in which both sexes have 

 developed metallic colours ; it therefore resembles some species of 

 the genus AnihotJircjitus. 



a. cJ ad. st. 



b. 2 ad. ; c. (5 iium. sk. 

 d. cJ ad. sk. 



^j.ft 9- <S imm. sk. 

 h. cJ ad. sk. 



i. 2 ad. sk. 



li. S imm. moult, sk. 

 /. c? ad. sk. 

 m, S ad. sk. 

 n. cS imm. sk. 



o,j}. c? 2 ad. sk. 

 q, r. (5 ad. sk. 



s. c? ad. sk, 



t. (S ad. sk. 



u, V. S ; "'• 2 ad. sk. 



X. (S ad. sk. 



Gambia. 



Gambia. 



Casamanze. 



Fantee. 



Elmiua, April 1872 



(^Blissett) . 

 Elmina, May 1872 



(Blissett). 

 Fantee ( Ussher). 

 Fantee (UssJier). 

 Fantee (Aubinn). 

 Abrokonko, Jan. 2, 1871 



(Ussher). 

 Ashantee. 

 River Yolta (Governor 



Ussher). 

 Gaboon. 



Gaboon ( WaUcer). 

 Gaboon. 

 Bembe, Angola. 



Purchased. 

 R. B. Sbai-pe, Esq. 

 R. B. Shai-pe, Esq, 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq, 

 R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



R, B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, E,«q. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



J. Goidd, Esq. 

 R. B. Shai-pe, Esq, 



H. J. Ansell, Esq. [P.], 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq, 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 J. J. Monteiro, Esq, 



[C.]. 



39, Cinnyris reichenbachi. 



Nectarinia reichenbachii, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr, p. 50 (1857) ; Cass, 

 Pr. P/nhid. Ac. 1859, p. 3G; mi7ic, J.f. O. 18G0, p. 137; Hartl. 

 op. cit. 18G1, p. 109 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 478 ; Eeichenotc, J.f. 0. 

 1875, p. 31 ; Bouvier, Cut. Oh. Marchc, p. 14 (1875). 

 Adehnus reichenbachii, Oustal. N. Arch. Mas. i. p. 88 (1878), 

 Cinnyris reichenbachii, Shelley, Monoyr. Nect. p. 299, pi, 96. 



Adidt male. Much resembling C, verticalis in general appearance. 

 The metallic parts do not include the sides of the neck "With a 

 purplish-blue gloss in position B, greenish-blue in position C ; wings, 

 their coverts, and tail dark brown ; the outer edges of the quills 



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