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Certhia purpurata, Shaw, G. Zool. viii. pt. i. p. 201 (1811), ex 

 Edw. t. 265, f. sup. 



Le Soui-manga powpre, Audeb. & Vieill., Ois. Dor. ii. p. 29, 

 t. 11, cJ adult., patr. non indie, descr. orig. 



Cinnyris purpu7'atus,Yiei\\., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 509 

 (1819), ex Audeb. & Vieill. t. 11. 



? Le Soui-manga a cravate violette, Audeb. & Vieill., Ois. Dor. 

 ii. p. 35, t. 15, patr. non iudic, S adolesc. 



Nectarinia lotenio (L.), Jard., Nat. Lib. xxxvi. pp. 220, 263, 

 t. 23, S adult., " India." 



Hab. Malabar, Carnatic, Madras, not observed elsewhere in 

 India (Jerdon) ; Ceylon (Layard); Deccan (Moore). 



Described from a Ceylon specimen obtained by Governor 

 Loten. Linneeus having carelessly added the Certhia madagas- 

 cariensis viridis, Briss., as a synonym, lotenia passed until 

 recently as the title of the Madagascar bird, N. angaladiana, 

 (Shaw) *. Seba can only have meant this Ceylon species. 

 Eeichenbach (Handb.) enumerates Cinnyris aeneus, Vieill., as a 

 good species from South Africa ! 



A. lotenia, though the type of Arachnechthra, Cab., is isolated 

 from the rest of the species of that genus by the great develop- 

 ment of the bill, a speciality of structure which may account for 

 its restricted geographical range. 



3. Arachnechthra flammaxillaris, (Blyth), Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Beng. xiv. p. 557 (1845). 



Nectarinia jugulai'is, Vieillot (Jard.), ap. Blyth, op. cit. xii. 

 p. 979, S, 2} "Tenasserim." 



Hab. Arracan (Blyth) ; Moulmein, Kyodan, Salween valley 

 (Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 541) ; Pinang (Moore, Cat. E. I. C. 

 Mus. ii. no. 1080) ; Pinang (Mus. nostr.) ; Siam (Gould, P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 151). 



The yellow under-plumage is much paler than in A.pectoralis, 

 (Horsf.). The superciliary streak is very faint in the male, but 

 more prominent in the female. The origin assigned to the 

 specimen marked "China, very rare," in the Derby Museum at 



* The oldest title for this Madagascar species appears to be Certhia 

 notatus (!), P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Anhang, p. 99, no. 32 (1776), ex 

 Buflt. PI. Enl. 575, f. 2, 3. 



