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GENEBA AND SPECIES OF BIUDS. 



lamily XXV. NECTARINIIDiE. 

 (Cf. Gadow, Cat. 13. Bi-it. Mus. ix. pp. 1-12U, 188-t.) 



Sub-Family I. ]S;E0DREPANIN^. 

 (Cf. Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 12, 1900.) 



T. NEODREPANIS, ."^iharpe. 



(Gadow, i. c. p. 2 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 12.) 



1. coruscans, Sharpe. (p. 2.) Madagascar. 



(Shelley, Monogr. Nect. pi. i. ; id. B. Africa, 

 ii. p."l2, 1900.) 



Sub-Family II. NECTAIUNIIN^. 

 (Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 13, 1900.) 



11, HEDYDIPNA, Cah. 



(Shelley, t. c. p. 14.) 

 Nectarinia, pt., Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 15 (1884). 



1. metallica {Licht.). (p. 8.; 

 (Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 15.) 



N.E. Africa 



(Nubia to Kordofan, 

 Abyssinia, and 

 Somali-land). 



2. muelleri, Lorenz ^- Hellm. Orn. i\lB. p. '6S S. Arabia. 

 (1901); id. Denksch. Akad. Wien, 

 Ixxi. p. Ill, Taf. i. figs. 3, 4 (l!)02). 

 [C/; Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 520.] 



y. platura(/7ej7/.). (p. 10.) 

 (Shelley, t- c p. 1C>.) 



W. Africa 

 (Seuegambia to 

 Sierra Leone). 



Equatorial Africa 

 ^Niam-niam to 

 Upper White Nile 

 districts, Lado. &c.). 



