400 A. MOHtjaRAPH OF THE ClNNYRID-aJ, 



can draw wben he pleases, are as a rule well worthy of the 

 subjects they represent. 



In my former notice of the earlier parts of this work, I 

 duly noticed the excellence of the text, and the great care 

 which had been bestovved in working out the synonymy and 

 such other details, and I have only to say that these preseut 

 parts are fully up to the high standard of the earlier ones. 



Part IV. appeared on the 15th of May 1877. 



pi, 1. Nectarinia tacazze. — This was described in Part III. 



The female is here figured for first time. 

 pi. 2. Cinnyris andamanicus. — Here figured for first time ; 



it was described in Part III. 

 pL, S.. Cinnyris rhizopliorce — Is here, I believe, figured for first 



time ; it was described in Part III. 

 pi. 4. Cinnyris honvieri. — Both male and female are figured ; 



they were described as new in Part III. 

 pi. 5. Cinnyris bifasciatus.— 'The adult male and female and 



young male are here figured, and although Captain Shelley, 



when he wrote his article upon this species (Part I), 



deemed a figure of it unnecessary, I think he is quite right 



in having decided to give one. 



— Cinnyris hasselti. — Captain. Shelley published the illustration 



of this bird in Part I under the older title brasilianus, 

 which he here discards as not being appropriate to a Malay 

 bird, in accordance with the opinion expi*essed by Mr. 

 Salvin (Ibis, 1877 ; p. 124) ; as already noticed I cannot 

 agree with this view. 

 The following additional references may be included in the 

 appendix : 



Leptocoma Jiasseltii. Bp. Comptes Eendus, 1854, p. 265. 



Nectarophila brasiliana, .'-toliczka, J. A. S. B., XXXIX, p. 300 (1870). 



Nectarophila hasselti, Blyth, Mamm. and B. of Burma, p. 142 (1875). 



pi. 6. Cinnyris speratus. — The female and young male are here 

 figured for first time. 



— Anthreptes simplex. — Captain Shelley refers my Anthreptes 



xanthoclilora to this species, and I am disposed, now that 

 1 know the species better, and understand the great 

 variation in size to which it is subject, to agree with him. 

 Arachnothera simplex^ Gri'ay, from Lombock should. Captain 

 Shelley now tells me, be erased from the sj^nonymy : it 

 does not belong to this family. 

 pi. 7. Cinnyris minimus. — This is the first time that the 

 species has been well figured, or that any detailed account 

 has been given of its habits, &c. 



