276 SYNOPSIS. 



<$ Forehead black, tinted with bluish-purple ; crown, back 

 of the neck, and back, golden green ; rump ultramarine-blue ; 

 tail black. Chin and a pectoral band black ; throat and 

 fore part of the neck golden-green ; belly and vent, yellow ; 

 axillary tufts orange. 



Hob. Valleys on the coast of Abyssinia, near Massua, Euj>p. 

 Note. Differs from N. metallica in greater length of bill, 

 black pectoral band. The name affinis will probably remain, 

 as the same appellation given to a species in a previous part of 

 the Synopsis may become a synonim to N. sperata. 



N. MADAGASCARIENSIS, Vieillot, 1823. 



Le Grimpereau violet de Madagascar, Briss. Ornithol. 4to. 

 iii. pi. xxxii. figs. 2, 3, p. 638. Le Souimanga, Vieill. 

 Ois. Dor. ii. pi. xviii. Le Souimanga proprement dit, 

 C. Madagascariensis, Vieill. Enc. Method. Ora. p. 591. 



(J Head, neck, back, scapulary feathers, and less, w.-covers, 

 brilliant green, with a shade of violet in particular lights ; the 

 lower part of the back, rump, and up. t.-covers, brownish 

 olive ; w. brown, feathers edged with olive ; t. black, bordered 

 with green. Throat and neck, brilliant green ; breast brown, 

 separated from the colour of the neck by two transverse bands, 

 the upper violet-blue, the lower purplish brown ; the belly and 

 lower t.-covers pale yellow ; flanks olive ; axillary tufts yellow. 

 Length, 4 in. 1 line. 



2 Olive-brown ; w. and t. as in <. Olive yellow. 



llab. Madagascar, Briss. Note. First known by descript. of 

 Brisson. Figured in Ois. Dor. The former our present au- 

 thority. 



N. ANGLADIANUS, Shaw, 1811. 



Le grimpereau verd de Madagascar, Briss. Ornithol. 4to. 



iii. pi. xxxiii. figs. 4, 5, p. 641. L*Angla-dian. Vieill. 



Ois. Dor. pis. iii., iv. Souimanga Angla-dian. C. lo- 



tenia, Vieill. Enc. Method. Ora. p. 590. 



<$ Golden-green ; w. and t. black, feathers bordered with 



green ; throat and neck golden-green ; breast, belly, flanks, and 



