34 CINNYRIS. 



h 3 . Upper tail-coverts green like the 

 back ; no metallic blue collar ; cul- 

 men 065 ; wing not more than two 



inches chloropygius. & 



d 1 . Tail graduated. 



e 2 . Throat uniform metallic green ending 

 in a narrow blue collar ; breast scarlet 

 fading into yellow on the sides ; upper 



tail-coverts violet blue regia. 



f 2 . Lower half of throat shading into bluish- 

 lilac ; breast yellow washed with 

 orange on front of chest and under 

 tail-coverts ; upper tail-coverts olive 



yellow violaceus. 



B. No metallic colours adult females and nestlings. 



KEY TO THE FEMALES. 



a. Beneath uniform, with no dark markings. 



a 1 . Tail square. 



a". Above more olive. 



a 3 . Larger; culmen 1-15 inches; under 



tail-coverts orange yellow .... superbus. 



b 3 . Smaller; culmen not more than 08 ; 



no orange yellow under tail-coverts. 



a 4 . Smaller; culmen 06 ; wing 2 . . cupreus. 



b 4 . Larger purpureiventris . 



b 2 . Above less olive, but with an olive yellow 



shade. 



c 3 . Larger. 



c 4 . Paler; culmen 075 mediocris. ' 



d*. Darker; culmen 085. 



a 5 . Camaroons preussi. 



, . -,-, . r . (stuhlmanni. 



b s . E. Africa \ , „ , 



(fucllcborni. I 



ireicJienowt. 



chloropygius. 



vcnustus. t 2. 



affinis. ( 



falkensteini. 



d 3 . Smaller; culmen about 0.6 



