xxx CLASSIFICATION. 



b'. Crown not metallic. 



b". Pectoral tufts orange dussumieri, p. 293 



c". Pectoral tufts absent hartlaubi, p. 295. 



c'. Crown metallic ajanolcemus, p. 297. 



c. Entire head and throat metallic. 



d. Metallic parts indigo-bronze, shaded with violet reichenbachii, p. 299. 



d'. Metallic parts bluish green verticalis 6, p. 301. 



d. Cheeks, ear-coverts, and upper half of the head metallic green ; under- 



pays ashy white verticalis $, p. 301. 



Page 91. Cinnyeis grayi. Add : — 

 Nectarophila grayi, Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 132. 



Page 95. Cinnyris poephyrol^mus. Add : — 

 ( "halcostetha porphyrolcema, Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 131. 



Page 99. Cinnyris auricefs. Add: — 

 Nectarinia auriceps, Briigg. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v, p. 465 (1877). 



Dr. Finsch has kindly informed me that he has examined an adult male of this species 

 collected by Dr. Bernstein on the island of Halmahera. 



Nectarinia porphyrolwma, Briigg., should be erased from the synonymy. 



Page 109. Cinnyris aspasioides. Add: — 

 Hermotimia aspasioides, Salvad. P. Z. S. 1S78, p. 81. 



Page 113. Cinnyris aspasia. 

 Chalcostetha aspasia, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265. 



Nectarinia aspasia, Schl. Handl. Dierk. p. 256 (1857); D'Albertis, Ibis, 1877, p. 367. 

 Hermotimia aspasia, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, x, p. 89 (1877). 

 Cinnyris aspasiw, Ramsay, Trans. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, iii, p. 288 (1878). 



Mr. Morton procured specimens at Port Moresby and along the Laloke river, which 

 Mr. Ramsay identifies as belonging to this species. 



Page 117. Cinnyris corinnjs. Add: — 



Nectarinia aspasia, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 289 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 10. 

 Hermotimia corinna, Salvad. Ibis, 1879, p. 106. 



Page 121. Cinnyris jobiensis. Add: — 

 Hermotimia jobiensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, p. 400 (1876). 



