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NECTARINIID^. 



Adult male. Upper and side parts of head and neck, shoulders, 

 mantle, and lesser wing-coverts metallic, golden green in positions 

 A and E, dark bluish green in position C ; on the lower back and on 

 the iipp'er tail-coverts this colour changes into olive, with uo or 

 scarcely any metallic gloss ; wings, greater coverts, and tail brown, 

 externally edged witli olive-yellow ; chin and fore neck dull yellow ; 

 pectoral tufts bright yeUow ; across the chest a broad metallic 

 crescent of the colour of the hind neck ; the collar bordered on 

 its lower margin by a narrow orange band ; all the rest of the 

 underparts dull whitish yellow. 



Female. Above dark olive-greenish ; all the underparts yellow, 

 with a faint dusky shade ; entire tail olive. 



Bill of Anthotlireptes rectirostris. 



Hah. AVest Africa, 



a. Ad. sk. 



b, c. $ ad. sk. 



d. S ad. sk. 

 e,/.c?;.<7/'.$ ad.sk. 

 i. c? ad. sk. 



k. S ad. sk. 

 /. S ad. sk. 



m. S jnv. sk. 

 n, 0. ^a,d.;p, q. 



J juv. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 t. $ ad. sk. 



River Gambia. 

 Bathurst, R. Gambia 



(Marche). 

 Ashantee. 

 Ashantee. 

 Takwa District, Wasa, 



Gold Coast. 

 Fan tee. 

 Fautee. 



Fautee. 



Fautee (Aidimi). 



Accra. 



River Voha ( Uss/ier). 



Fernando Po. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 Capts. Burton and 



Cameron [P.]. 

 A. Swauzy, Esq. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Type of N. fmitensis.) 

 R. JB. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



9. Anthotlireptes tephrolsema. 



Nectarinia tephrolasma, Jard. S,- Fraser, Cojitr. Orn. 1851, p. lo4 ; 

 Jard. Contr. Orn. 18-52, p. 59; Harll. Orn. Tr.-..^/r. p. 51, no. 148 

 (1857) ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 18.59, p. .36; HariJ. J.f. O. 1861, 

 p. 109 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 108, no. 1319 (18G9) ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Afr. B. p. -41, no. 384 (1871) ; Bocage, Orn. d'Ant/ola, p. 177 

 (1877). 



Anthodifeta tephrolfema, Rewhb. Handh. Scansoria, p. 294, no. 689 

 (1854); Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 69; 0%(st. Bull. Soc. Phtlom. 7th 

 series, p. 106 (1877) ; id. N. Arch. Mus. i. p. 87 (1878); Shelley, 

 3Ionot/r. Ned. p. 3.33. 



TephroLioma resplendens, Heine, J. f. 0. 1860, p. 137. 



Nectarinia chlorolajma (by " misprint "), Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 7. 



Nectarinia gabonica, Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, pp. 13, 109; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p 107, no. 1300 (1869). 



Adult male. Closely allied to A. rectirostris, but differing in the 

 colour of the itnderparts ; neck all round and chest metallic, like 



