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THE last group of the suctorial family which belongs 

 to the Ornithology of Western Africa is one of very 

 peculiar interest it is that of 



ANTHREPTES, 



a genus first defined in the Appendix to the 

 Northern Zoology, and which until then had been 

 confounded with that of Cinnyris. The discovery 

 of this form has completed the circle by which the 

 types of the Cinnyridce, or Honey-suckers, return 

 into themselves ; or, in other words, the connexion 

 of all the divisions among themselves is completed. 

 As we have only glanced at this beautiful chain of 

 affinities on a former occasion, we shall take this 

 opportunity of illustrating it more completely, more 

 especially as our observations, having a wide circu- 

 lation in this work, may call the attention of ornitho- 

 logists particularly to the subject, and induce them 

 to increase our present meagre list of this group, by 

 separating those species of Anthreptes which are at 

 present confounded with the genuine types of Cin- 

 nyris. For this purpose, and to render the distinc- 

 tions of the two perfectly intelligible without the 

 aid of technical language, we will call the attention 

 of the student, in the first instance, to the bill of a 

 genuine Cinnyris. He will perceive that the under 



