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congeners it hovers about flowering shrubs in search for 

 insects. 



Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



Cinny ris chloropy gia^ 



Nectarinia chloropygia, Jard. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 X. p. 188; — Harti. Orn. W. Afr. p. 47; — Boc. Orn. 

 dAng. p. 170. 



Cinnyris chloropygius , Shelley, Mon. Nect, p. 257, pi. 

 79; — Gadow, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. IX. p. 34. 



Hab. West Africa , from Senegambia to Angola. 



A small series with nests and eggs, collected at Grand 

 Cape Mount. 



The commonest of all Sun-birds known to me from Liberia. 



Iris dark brown , bill and feet black. 



Its nest hangs at the end of a twig about 3' above the 

 ground , generally in old farms , where grass and brush- 

 wood are growing up again. It is of a pouch-like, some- 

 what oval shape, filted together with the soft fibres of 

 plantain-leaves and cotton , with which latter material it 

 is very thickly lined, and outside decorated with inter- 

 woven pieces of Lichen, which gives it a gray and white 

 speckled appearance. The entrance, a round hole in the 

 side near the top , is covered by a kind of jetty , built 

 from the same material as the nest. Each nest contains 

 commonly two, very seldom three eggs of an oval form. 

 Axis 1,5, diameter 1,1 cm.; color grayish white with 

 concentred dirty streaks at the thicker pole. Collected the 

 14th November. 



Cinny ris venusta. 



Certhia venusta, Shaw, Nat. Misc. X, pi. 369. 

 Nectarinea venusta, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 48. 

 Cinnyris venustus and C. ojfinis , Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 

 235, pi. 74, and p. 239. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseiiin, "Vol. "VII. 



