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unlike guano. Contents of stomach, small Coleoptera. Met with these birds only 
at Kokai and on the Anseba.—W. J.] 
48. IRRISOR ATERRIMUS (Steph.). 
Promerops pusillus, Sws. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 120. 
Trrisor cyanomelas, Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 263. 
Rhinopomastes pusillus, Antinori, Catal. p. 32. 
TIrrisor aterrimus, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 209. no. 92. 
a. Senafé. May 13 (no. 1039). 
b. Mohaber. July 9 (no. 1015). 
c. Rairo. August 13 (no. 1086). 
Not included in the lists of North-east-African birds by Dr. Riippell, Von Heuglin, and 
Dr. Brehm, but already known from that part of Africa. Specimens from Sennahr are 
in the Berlin Museum ; others from the interior, collected by Von Heuglin in Bongo, 
on the Bahr-el-ghasal, I examined also. For the Abyssinian coast lands, L. aterrimus, 
which has often been confounded with J. cyanomelas, Vieill., is new.—0O. F. 
[Iris brown; beak black; legs and feet horn-colour. 
Three specimens procured. Senafé, May; Mohaber, July 9; Rairo, August 15.— 
W. J.) 
Fam. PROMEROPID. 
49, NECTARINIA TACAZZIANA (Stanl.). 
Nectarinia tacazze (!), Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 31. f. 3; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 28. no. 108; Heugl. 
Syst. Uebers. no. 152. 
a, 3. Rayrayguddy. April 8 (no. 445). 
_ 6. 3. Rayrayguddy. April 8. 
c. d. Rayrayguddy. April 8. 
d. 2. Rayrayguddy. April 8 (no. 486). 
e. 3. Goongoona. May 7 (no. 1944). 
f. 3. Facado. May 8 (no. 1752). 
g. 2. Senafé. May 25. 
[Iris brown; beak black; legs and feet black. 
A series of seven specimens procured at the following places :—Rayrayguddy, April 8; 
Goongoona, May 7; Facada, May 8; Senafé, May 25. Never met by me elsewhere, 
either in Abyssinia or Bogos. Females scarce.—W. J.] 
50. NEcTARINIA PULCHELLA (L.). 
Nectarinia pulchella, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 28. no. 107; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 151; id. Journ. 
f, Orn. 1864, p. 261. 
a. 3. Waliko. August 4 (no. 507). 
b. 2. Waliko. July 4 (no. 508). 
