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24. Cinnyris venustus (Shaw). 



Butt. 1. c. p. 169, cf (seel non fern., nid. et ov.). 

 A large series, Messurado- and Junk River. 



What I have considered in the above cited note to be 

 the female , nest and eggs of this species , has , as soon as 

 I received the first real female of venustus from Mr. Stampfli , 

 turned out to be Stiphrornis alboterminata Rchw., with 

 which species the number in my previous list will be aug- 

 mented. The mistake was caused by the singular fact that 

 I shot a male of C. venustus together with a female of *S^. 

 alboterminata near the nest of the latter, and having not 

 had a female of C. venustus at that time , I did not hesitate 

 a moment to consider the female bird as the matched 

 female of the male Cinnyris. — Stiphrornis alboterminata is 

 not collected by Mr. Stampfli , and the male of this species 

 thus still wanting in our collection. 



25. Cinnyris chloropygius (Jard.), 



Butt. 1. c. p. 169. 

 Several specimens from Monrovia, the Junk- and Messurado R. 



26. Cinnyris n. sp. ? 



1 specimen (N°. 457), probably a female, collected 9 Febr. 

 at Schiefifelinsville. 



»Iris, bill and feet black, basal half of lower mandible 

 pale flesh-color." 



This specimen has, with the exception of the shorter tail , 

 exactly the size of chloropygius , of which it is certainly the 

 nearest ally. It differs however from the latter by the dull 

 green — not olive-brown — upper surface , the broad lively 

 greenish yellowish edgings to the quills, the grayish green 

 throat and chest without any tinge of fulvous, and especially 

 by the above and below olive-green (not black) tail. 

 This latter measures only 23 mm. instead of 28. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseura , "Vol. VIII. 



