xxxvi CLASSIFICATION. 



species has seasonal plumages. The young male is coloured like the female up to the first 

 spring, then assumes by a complete moult the plumage of the adult male, and never again 

 changes. The eggs vary in length from 065 to - G0 inch, and in breadth from - 49 to 0*47 ; 

 and the average of six eggs is 0"62 by - 475. The breeding-season lasts from the commencement 

 of June to the end of August." For further details regarding the breeding of this species I must 

 refer my readers to Mr. Oates's article in ' Stray Feathers,' vol. v, p. 148. 



Page 165. Cinnyris pectoealis. Add: — 



(yiiostomus eximius, Bp. Comptes Eendus, 1854, p. 265. 

 Nectarinia exhnia, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 163 (1865). 



Aracltnerhthra pectoralis, Ball, J. A. S. B. xxxix, p. 31 (1870); Tvveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 302. 

 ('yiiostomus pectoralis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv, p. 212 (1879). 

 Oinnyris pectoralis, Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 106 ; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 259 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 341. 



Page 177. Cinntris lotenius. Add: — 



Golden-green Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii, p. 716 (1781). 



Cinnyris omnicolor, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 508 (1819). 



Cinnyris purpuratus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii, p. 596 (1823). 



I Cinnyris falcatus, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii, p. 30 (1828). 



Nectarinia poUta, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 511 (1829). 



Nectarinia purpurata, Drapiez, torn. cit. p. 514. 



Anthreptes lotenia, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 56 (1854). 



Arachnecldhra lotenia, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 18. 



Cinnyris lotenius, Fairbank, Str. F. 1877, p. 399; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 563 (1879). 



Page 181. Cinnyris asiaticus. Add: — 



Cinnyris chrysopterus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 493 (1819). 



Cinnyris asiaticus, Vieill. torn. cit. p. 494; Fairbank, Str. F. v, p. 399 (1877); Davison & 



Wenden, Str. F. vii, p. 79 (1878); Cripps, torn. cit. p. 267; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 566 



(1879). 

 Cinnyris virescens, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 497(1819); Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 



Meth. ii, p. 585(1823); Bp. Consp. Av. i, p. 407(1850); Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, 



p. 289, no. 669, pi. 575, fig. 3919 (1851); Mull. J. f. O. 1855, p. 15. 

 Cinnyris currucaria, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 500 (1819); Sykes, J. A. S. B. iii, 



p. 542 (1834). 

 Bed-banded Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv, p. 244 (1822). 

 Nectarinia chrysoptera, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 509 (1829). 

 INectarinia currucaria, Drapiez, torn. cit. p. 510. 



