94 



NECTAKINIID^. 



Female. All the upper parts and the sides of the head earthy 

 browu, with a slight olive tinge ; wiugs and tail brown ; throat 

 sooty brown or blackish : rest of the underparts, including a line 

 along the checks and sides of the neck, dull yellowish ; chest, breast, 

 and under wing-coverts mottled ^vith brown, only the terminal parts 

 of the feathers being yellowish. "Wing 2-o inches. 



In the young male the plumage of the adult bird begins to ap- 

 pear with the red feathers on the chest ; then foUows the metallic 

 crown &c. 



Hab. Xorth-eastcrn Africa. 



o,b, S 2 'i<l- St. 

 c, d. S ad.; e. $ 



ad. sk. 

 /. (S imm. sk. 

 </. c? ad. sk. 

 'h. [d]. iuv.sk. 

 /. S ad. : k. c? 



imm. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. 



Abyssinia. 



Bogos Land (Usler). 



Bogos Land (JEsler). 

 Bejook (Jesse). 

 Abvssinia (Jesse). 

 Seoafe, Tigi-^, 7500 feet, 



March 1868. 

 Anseba valley, 4000 feet, 



Julv 21, 1868. 



»i. [ cJ ] juv. sk. Tete, Zambesi. 



Pm'chased. 



R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 W.T.Blaoford,Esq. [C.]. 



W.T.Blanford,Esq.[C.]. 



Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



50. Cinnyris senegalensis. 



Grimpereau violet du Senegal, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 660, pi. .34. fig. 2 



(1760). 

 Certhia senegalensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 186 ; P. L. S. Miill. S. N. ii. 



p. 258 (1773) ; Gm. S. K i. p. 477 (1783) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. 284 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 205, pi. 79. figs. 1 & 2 



(1811). . . 



Soui-manga violet a poitrine rouge. Month. Hist. Ois. v. p. 500 (1778) ; 



And. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 25, pi. 8 (1802). 

 Senegal Creeper, Lath. Gen. Stjn. B. ii. p. 209 (1782) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



B. iv. p. 236, note t (1822). 

 Sucrier Prot^e (pt.), Levaill. Ois. cTAfr. vi. p. 165, pi. 295. fig. 2 



(1808) ; Sundev. Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 57 (1857). 

 Cinnyris senegalensis, Cuv. Rcc/ne Anini. i. p. 412 (1817) ; Hahn, 



Orn. Atlas, Cuinyi-is, p. 2 (1834) ; Siuains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 127 



(1837) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 408 (1850) ; Cah. Mies. Hein. i. p. 102 



(1850) ; Sheik'!/, Monoyr. Nect. p. 267, pi. 83. 

 Cinnvris discolor, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 519 (1819) ; 



Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 589 (1823) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. 



p. 46 (1828). 

 Nectaiiuia senegalensis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 15 (1823) ; Drapiez, 



Bid. Class, xv. p. 515 (1829) ; Kittl. Kupfert. Vor/. p. -22, p. 28, 



fio-. 2 (1833) ; Jard. Monoqr. Sun-birds, pp. 191, 255, pi. 11 (1842) ; 



Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 49 (1857) ; Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 331 ; 



Bocaije, Jorn. Li-sb. i. p. 135 (1866). 

 Chalcomitra senegalensis, Reichenh. Handb. Scansor. p. 278, pi. 567. 



figs. 3866-67 (1854). 



C. acih of Heuglin, 

 Nectariuia natalensis, Antin. Cat. p. 34 (1864, nee Jardine) ; Heur/l. 

 J. f. 0. 1867, p. 202; Salmd. Atti E. Ace. Torin. p. 731, pl.'l. 

 fig. 2. 



