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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The following table shows the comparative size of the two species: 



Measurements. 



Name. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 





mm. 

 64 

 54 



mm: 

 42 

 38 



m,m,. 

 16 

 14 



m,7n. 

 9.5 

 9 



Anthreptes idius, male [immature ?] 



Mr. Ciirrie states that this species was not uncommon in the "bush" 

 about Mount Coffee, and that its Grolah name is "Zemeh." 



♦ CINNYRIS CYANOLiEMA (Jardine). 



Nectarinia cyanolwma Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1851, p. 154. 



Cinnyris cyanolwmus Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, I, 1876, p. 41. 



Three specimens — male, female, and young male. The two first are 

 apparently typical birds in. breeding plumage; "bill and feet black;" 

 length of female, 139 mm. ; extent, 200 mm. The immature male differs 

 from the adult female in being darker, more sooty above, including 

 wings and tail; the top of the head is sooty blackish instead of olive 

 brownish; the sides of head and neck blackish slate instead of light 

 brownish ; the throat dull white, washed with olive yellow instead of 

 light brownish, and sharply de&ned from the surrounding darker areas; 

 breast and abdomen light olive green instead of brownish white; lining 

 of wing sooty grayish instead of whitish. 



The Golah name of the adult male of this species is " Zemeh-dee;" 

 the young male is called " Zemeh," thus not distinguished from 

 Anthreptes idius. 



CINNYRIS JOHANN.^ Verreaux. 



Cinnyris Johanna; J. and E. Verreaux, Eev. et Mag. Zool., 1851, p. 314. 



One adult male of this brilliantly plumaged sunbird is in the collec- 

 tion. "Bill and feet jet black;" length, 145.6 mm.; extent, 209 mm. 



CINNYRIS CHLOROPYGIA (Jardine). 



Nectarinia chloropygia Jardine, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., X, 1842, p. 188. 

 Cinnyris cldoropygius Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 407. 



One adult male. "Bill and feet black;" length, 103 mm.; extent, 

 133 mm. Mr. Ourrie reports the species common in the vicinity of 

 Mount Coffee. In the Golah dialect it is called "Zemeh," a name 

 apparently applied indiscriminately to a number of small birds. 



Family PLOCEID^. 



MALIMBUS SCUTATUS (Cassin). 



Scobius 1 scutatus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1849, p. 157. 

 Malimbus scutatus Gray, Hand-List Birds, II, 1870, p. 43. 



Two adult specimens, male and female. "Bill and feet black; iris 

 crimson." Length, male, 175 mm.; expanse, 282 mm. Length, female, 

 172 mm.; expanse, 266 mm. 



' Typographical error for Sycohiris. 



