830 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
The chin and throat are much whiter than the rest of the under- 
parts; the wing-coverts, and especially the secondaries, edged 
with pale chestnut. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Eur. ii, pl. 57. 
Page 306. NercTARINIA FAMOSA. 
Very abundant in the Newcastle district: wintering in the Drakens- 
berg kloofs ; Ladysmith, August; common at Richmond Road in 
December (B., F., and R.). 
Page 308. Insert :—Necrarinia Bocacit, Shelley. Bocage’s Sun-bird. 
Senor Anchieta discovered this species near Caconda in Benguela, 
where it is rare. 
It is of the same form and about the same size as N. famosa, but of 
quite a different colour, being in fact a southern form of N. tacazze 
of Abyssinia. 
General colour coppery or violet bronze; abdomen black ; upper parts 
and throat shaded with bluish-green. Total length, 8°1 inches ; 
culmen, 0°9; wing, 3°05 ; tail, 4°2; tarsus, 0°7 (Shelley). 
Fig. Shelley, Monogr. Nect. pl. 6, fig. 2. 
Page 310. Insert :—CINNYRIS OLIVACINUS. 
Described by the late Prof. Peters from Inhambane; it is said to be 
similar to C. olivaceus, but smaller. 
Page 311. CINNYRIS GUTTURALIS. 
Maritzburg : not uncommon in the hot months (B., F. and R.). 
Pantamatenka River (Holub). 
Page 313. CrnNYRIS AFER. 
Common in the Rustenberg district (Ayres). 
Kloofs of the Drakensberg, wintering there in May and June : breeding 
in August (B., F., and R.). 
Page 313. Insert :—CINNYRIS LUDOYICENSIS. 
Sent from Biballa: native names Kanjoi and Kinbinja (Anchieta). 
Captain Shelley unites this species with O. afer, but it seems to us not 
unlikely to be identical with the recently described C. erikssoni, of 
Trimen. 
The latter species has been discovered in Damara Land by Mr. Axel 
Eriksson, for many years the companion of the late Mr. Andersson. 
It has been named after the discoverer by Mr. Roland Trimen, who 
writes : ‘‘ This Sun-bird belongs to Shelley’s ‘ pale metallic group’ 
of the genus Cinnyris, and is in colouring almost identical with 
C. afer (L.), but differs strikingly in size, being not larger than 
C. chalybeus (L.), and in the shortness of its beak. In the male 
