258 SYNOPSIS. 



<J Above, uniform yellowish uinber-brown, slightly darker on 

 the w. and t. ; coronal patch passing the line of the eyes, im- 

 bricated, deep green. Below, chin velvet-black, bordered by a 

 maxillary stripe of deep green ; fore part of the neck and up- 

 per breast straw-yellow, bordered on the lower edge by dark 

 umber-brown ; lower breast, belly, and sides, pale chestnut- 

 brown ; und. t.-covers dark umber-brown ; bill, tarsi, and feet, 

 black. Length, 4 In. 8-10ths; bill to forehead, 7-10ths; w.to 

 long, quill, 2 in. 4-10ths. 



2 Above, dark hair- brown, on the quills andt. nearly umber- 

 brown. Underneath, pale yellowish grey, clearest in the middle 

 of the belly ; the feathers darker along the centre of each ; bill, 

 legs, and tarsi, dark umber brown. Length, 4 in. G-lOths. 



Hob. Senegal, Gervais. Eboe on the Niger, Thompson. 



N. VIOLACEA, Linnaeus, 1766. 



Certhia lonyicauda minor C. B. Spei. Briss. Oftiithol. iii. 

 p. 649, pi. xxxiii. fig. 6 ; 8vo. ii. p. 15, 1763. Certhia 

 riolacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 188, 1766 ; .Linn. Man- 

 tissa, p. 525, 1771 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 288, 1790 



Le Souimanga a capuchon violet, " C. violaceus" Vieill. 

 Enc. Method, p. 598. Le Sucrier orcunga, Le Vaill. vi. 

 p. 152, pi. 292. 



Above, crown, back and sides of the neck, upper part of 

 the back, .and bend of the w., dark golden-green, varied with 

 bronze and purple ; back, rump, up. t.-covers, edges of the 

 feathers of the w. and t., yellowish green ; w. and t. pale um- 

 ber-brown. Beloiv, chin and throat dark golden-green ; centre 

 of the breast, and nearly bordering the green of the sides as & 

 narrow crescent, violet purple ; lower part and centre of the 

 breast and belly, deep reddish orange, shading into gamboge- 

 yellow on the flanks and und. t.-covers ; axillary tufts pale king's- 

 yellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. Length, 6 in. ; of bill to 

 forehead, 9-10ths ; of w. to long, quill, 2 in. 2-lOths. 



Hob. Vicinity of Cape of Good Hope, Le Vaill. Note. Center 

 t. -feathers exceed the others by 9-10ths or 1 in. ; t. gra- 

 duated. 



