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collected many specimens at Landana on the Loango coast, 

 and Bohndorff up the Congo, at Manyango and Leopoldsville. 



Owing to Mr. Cassin's remark, that "the young male is 

 like the female, but with the throat, abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts yellow, the former with a few lustrous metallic green 

 feathers," I expected to find that the female would be an 

 olive-shaded bird with no metallic colours, so, in my Mono- 

 graph of this family, I described as the female one of G. 

 cupreus in Petit's collection from Landana. I have since seen 

 one of Petit's specimens in a similar plumage to that of the 

 male labelled " female," thus confirming the correctness of Dr. 

 Reichenow's observation, that the plumages of the sexes in 

 adult birds are alike. 



With regard to Ginnyris oritis, Reichenow, I believe this 

 species is only known by the type specimen, procured by Dr. 

 Preuss in the highlands of Camaroons on June 16, 1891, and 

 described as very similar to G. reichenbachi, but differing in 

 having the entire abdomen yellowish olive, a slight tinge of 

 violet on the throat, and the occiput greenish. The bill is 

 recorded as more than an inch in length, but I presume 

 "r. 27—28" is a misprint for r. 17—18. Otherwise the 

 description of the type of G. oritis suggests to me a young 

 specimen of G. reichenbachi which has nearly assumed the full 

 breeding plumage. For that reason I intentionally omitted 

 the name from my list of African species, and see no reason 

 for altering that opinion now. Whether I am right or wrong 

 in so doing can only be decided by further information on the 

 subject. 



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Form very similar to that of Cinnyris, but with the bill comparatively 

 shorter and straighter with no downward curve to the keel of the lower 

 mandible. Culmen often not quite so long as the tarsus ; tail square ; style 

 of plumage very variable. 



