xviii CLASSIFICATION. 



Key to the Species. 



Entire head, neck, and back of metallic colours ; abdomen yellow. 



a. Throat metallic green, terminating in a steel-blue collar metallica, p. 3. 



b. Entire throat metallic green platura, p. 7. 



3. Nectarinia. t 



Nectarinia, 111. Prodr. p. 210 (1811) N.famosa. 



Panceola, Cab. Mus. Hein. i, p. 101 (1850) N. pulchella. 



Bill not shorter than the tarsus. Tail square or rounded, with the two centre feathers in 

 the male much elongated, with their ends rounded, but not widened. 

 Range. South, West, and North-east Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



Entire head, neck, and back of metallic colours ; abdomen metallic green 

 or black. 



a. Abdomen and general plumage metallic green. 



a'. Smaller, centre of the chest scarlet pulchella, p. 9. 



b'. Larger, no scarlet on the chest. 



b". Greener, no reddish copper shades, and less golden shades . . . famosa, p. 13. 



c". Head and neck washed with reddish copper, and with strong 



golden reflections cupreonitens, p. 17. 



b. Abdomen black; general plumage coppery or violet-bronze. 



//. Less shaded with steel-blue, head and neck coppery bronze, remainder 



of the metallic parts lilac tacazze, p. 19. 



<■'. Upper parts and throat shaded with bluish green bocagii, p. 21. 



Page 9. Nectarinia pulchella. Add : — 

 Nectarinia caudata, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 51'2 (1829). 

 Nectarinia pulchella, Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c. p. 14 (1875). 



Page 13. Nectarinia pamosa. Add: — 



Cinnyris famosus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 504 (1819). 



Nectarinia formosa, Bp. Comptes Eendus, 1854, p. 265. 



Nectarinia famosa, Licht. Nomencl. At. p. 55 (1854); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1806, p. 22; Sharpe, 



new edit. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 30G (1876); Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 202; Ayres, torn. cit. 



p. 42o. 



Page 21. Nectarinia bocagii. Add: — 



Adiili Female. Upper parts pale olive-brown ; sides of the head darker, with a broad but somewhat ill-defined 



buff eyebrow, and a black patch in front of the eye ; wings dark brown with pale edges to the feathers, 



lighter and inclining to olive on the quills : tail-feathers blackish brown, very slightly edged with olive, 



and the three outer pairs with white tips extending down the margins of the two outer feathers on each 



