SYNOPSIS. 273 



N. ? EQUES, Lesson, 1826. 



Souimanga decore, Ciwtiyris eques, Less. Voy. de la Coq. i. 

 p. 678, and Atlas, pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 



Plumage uniform yellowish umber-brown ; fore part of 

 the neck, throat, and breast, with a gular patch of bright scar- 

 let-red ; bill and feet black. Length 4 in. 5 lines. 



Hob. Island of Waigiou, harbour of Dorery, N. Guinea. 

 Lesson. Note. Known by the plate in Voy. de la Coq. 



N. SIPARAJA, Raffles, 1822. 



Certhia siparaja, Raff. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 299. 

 Cinnyris siparaja, Cat. Zool. Spec. Mem. Sir St. RafF. 

 App. p. 673. Souimanga moustac^ N. mt/sticalis, Temm. 

 PI. Col. 126, fig. 3. (Auct. Cat. Mem. Sir St. Raffles, 

 sup. cit.) 



<$ Crown, with an imbricated patch of violet passing 

 the line of the eyes, a maxillary streak, rump, and t. of the 

 same colour ; bax?k of the neck, back, and less, w.-covers, bril- 

 liant purplish red ; w. blackish grey ; throat, neck, and breast, 

 purplish red (clearer than above) ; belly, vent, and und. 

 t.-covers, white ; bill and feet reddish brown. Length, 4 in. 



Hob. Java, Temm. Note. This species has the t. -feathers 

 elongated and ought to follow N. goalpariensis and latfiami. 



N. CARDINALINUS, Vieillot, 1823. 



Cinnyris cardinalinus, Le Souimanga cardinalin, Vieill. 

 Enc. Method, p. 598. Le Sucrier cardinalin, Le Vaill. 

 vi. p. 149, pi. 291. 



$ Head, neck, back, rump, all the up. w.-eovers, up. t.-co- 

 vers, and the two long t.-feathers, golden-green; from the 

 breast, carmine-red. 



$ With the under parts yellow, instead of carmine-red. 

 Hob. Mountains in the country of the Great Namaquois, Le 

 Vaill. Note. This is of the same form with N. pulchellus, and 

 should stand after it. Vieillot suspects that it is that bird in 

 mature plumage? Known by the descript. arid figure of 

 Le Vaillant. 



