CINNYEIS. 



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zone round the larger end, consist of purplish-grey blotches and 

 irregular dark-brown spots and scrolls. It measures -61 by 41 



'■ "^cS^I^JIir* ^^^^- Crowley Bequest. 



Cinnyris notatus (P. L. S. Miill.). 



Cinnyris notatus, Shelley Monogr. Neat. p. 19.5 (1876-80) ; Gado^o Cat 



Shelley, Birds Afr. u. p. 39 (1900) ; Sharpe, Hund-l. v. p. 44 (1906). 



An egg of the Madagascar Sun-bird has the ground-colour 

 yellowish-white indistinctly mottled all over with duU lilac-grey 



(;VoWteJ3t^ -'^"^^ "^^'^'^^"^- '' -'''^'- ■' 'y^-^ 

 '• 'i-^r Sr^;.i;;! ^^^^-^^^ CrowleyEe,uest. 



Cinnyris habessinicus (H. ^*- E.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 5.) 



(1900); >S7..y.,/f-;^.rv.;^4.f a966) ''^' ^"'^^ ^'•^'■- "" ^".^^ 



Eggs of the Abyssinian Sun-bird are of an oval or somewhat 

 po nted oval shape and moderately glossy. The three 6-^^ the 

 Collechon are ot^two somewhat di4rent lypes : two examj^es from 

 El roki have the ground-colour pale blue, marked all over with 



Tn^hfot^" :r7''^"^"^^^^'^°^^ '' ^^^y -<^ reddish biwn; 

 m he other one trom Roseires, the ground-colour is pale greenish- 

 brown" t"^^' "°f ^' ''' °^^^^"^^ «--^^i«^ -^d p'aleydlow h- 

 75^y'-5. ^""^ '"'''^''' respectively -67 by -42 and 



I' SrT'r'.?'"" ^.'\'' September. Major H. N. Dunn fP 1 



2. El Toki, Hawash Valley. Sir Alfred E. Pere/£it. [P.]. 



Cinnyris erythrocerius (Heugl). 

 Ciungs egthro^ri^, ^ p^^fjjg:,- ^^- P- ^^^i^f^^fO) ; Gad.e, 

 (1900J; ^7..;y.e,^i-?:.'V45(19b6)^^^'^^ ''* ^^■^''^ "' P" '^ 



PointeTofff?' Heuglin's Wedge-tailed Sun-bird are of a rather 

 oem^r. h .1 ' ^'i^ 1'"^' '' °" -^°^^' the ground-colour is 

 mo [ed w H f ^^"i^l^-^hite, more or less thickly blotched and 



The rev blotch: ' '""' '"'l^f^'' yeUowish-brown. in one example 

 the ,rej blotches are much larger, and large portions of the shell 



