76 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [Feb. 2, 
The type is 
NEODREPANIS CORUSCANS, Sp. 0. 
Not quite full-plumaged. Entire back, upper tail-coverts, and 
tail metallic steel-blue, with a slight purple lustre on the rump and 
upper tail-coverts ; head dull yellowish green, with a few steel-blue 
feathers appearing, showing that the crown becomes metallic like 
the back; wing-coverts and quills black, externally edged with 
yellowish green, some of the coverts becoming metallic but a little 
greener than the back, the innermost secondaries metallic steel-blue 
like the back; ear-coverts blackish; entire under surface of body 
yellowish, mottled with black, all the bases to the feathers being of 
the latter colour; under wing-coverts, sides of body, and edge of 
wing bright yellow. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 1°1, wing 1°85, 
tail 0°9, tarsus 0°55. 
It is much to be regretted that this pretty little bird is not quite 
in full plumage ; but the colour of its metallic upper surface shows 
that it is not a Mascarene or African Sun-bird, with nearly every one 
of which Iam acquainted. It is, moreover, evidently the type of an 
entirely new genus, and undoubtedly distinct from every Sun-bird 
known to me or represented in the Museum. The single example 
known was sent by Mr. Crossley. 
Family TrmeLimD2. 
OXYLABES XANTHOPHRYS, Sp. nl. 
Above dull olivaceous brown, the head darker brown, all the 
feathers of the crown margined with dusky blackish, wing-coverts 
coloured like the back, the greater series clearer brown and more 
resembling the secondaries ; quills blackish, washed with clear and 
somewhat rufous brown, the primaries inclining to olive-brown near 
the base; upper tail-coverts and tail dull reddish brown, waved 
with numerous cross bars of dusky brown; lores and a very broad 
eyebrow bright yellow, extending backwards to the sides of the neck ; 
feathers in front of the eye blackish ; ear-coverts dull brown, washed 
with olive like the head; under surface of body bright yellow, the 
sides of the neck and of the breast washed with brown, the flanks 
and under tail-coverts olive-brown, as also the under wing-coverts, 
the edge of the wing bright yellow; bill light yellowish brown, dark 
brown at the base of the culmen; feet pale fleshy brown. ‘Total 
length 6-5 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 2°75, tail 3-1, tarsus 1°05. 
A single specimen of this new bird is in Mr. Crossley’s collection. 
It seems to me to agree well enough with Oxylabes to be placed in 
that genus, though in cclour it is strikingly different from O. mada- 
gascariensis, the typical species. 
BERNIERIA ZOSTEROPS, Sp. n. 
Above dull olive-greeu, more dingy on the head, a loral stripe and 
a circlet of feathers round the eye bright yellow; feathers between 
the bill and the eye black ; car-coverts dark green, with bright yellow 
shaft-stripes ; entire under surface of body bright yellow, the sides 
