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visible only in a few specimens; most of them have the rump of the same metallic 
green as the other upper parts of the body. 
Long. al. Cand. Rostr. 
2! een? ait 1 Shag 879" OF, 
[Eye black; beak black; legs and feet black. 
The first four specimens were procured in the same locality and at the same date as 
Nectarinia metallica; plentiful and well distributed. Subsequently specimens were 
obtained at Sahati, June 23; Waliko, June 24; Maragaz, July 29; and Rairo, 
August 13. Female seen, and dull in plumage like those of other species.— WV. J. | 
55. NECTARINIA JARDINEI, Verr. 
Nectarinia jardinei, Hartl. Syst. Orn. W. Afr. p. 47; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 218, no. 97, 
(lay wb ve Te 
a. 3. Senafé. May 22 (no. 1280). 
b. 3. Senafé. May 27 (no. 498). 
Long. al. Caud, Culm. Tars. 
De bea’ ee iis Set bs Ones or 74” 4 2 F Senafé. 
21-2 8 Meola ers 64-7” 64-7”. . . Angola, Zanzibar. 
The discovery of this species, which was only known from West and East Africa, is a 
very interesting contribution to the avifauna of North-east Africa. A careful com- 
parison with specimens from Angola and Zanzibar shows not the slightest difference in 
coloration, but a considerably larger size. I hesitate to make a new species upon this 
character alone, fearing a larger series would perhaps offer forms intermediate in size, 
which would not permit the two species to be distinguished with certainty. If further 
researches prove that the differences in size are permanent, I propose to call the North- 
eastern form Nectarinia osiris.—O. F. 
[Eye black; beak black ; legs and feet black. 
Two specimens, both male, procured at Senafé, were all I ever saw either in Abyssinia 
or Bogos. These were killed in a valley some 1200 feet below Senafé, on the western 
side.— IV. J.] 
Fam. CERTHIAD#. 
TROGLODYTINA. 
56. OLIGOCERCUS RUFESCENS (Vieill.). 
Troglodytes microurus, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 41. 
Oligura microura, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 56. no. 115; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 161; id. Fauna 
des Roth. Meer. no. 56. 
Oligocercus rufescens (ex N. O. Afr.), Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 227. no, 104. 
a. 3. Waliko. July 21 (no. 1512). 
