xl CLASSIFICATION. 



Page 253. Cinxyeis chaltbeus. Add : — 



Certhia chalybea, Shaw & Nodd. Nat. Misc. x, pi. 381 (1799). 



Nectarinia chalybea, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 510 (1829); Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 55 (1854); 



Schl. Handl. Dierk. p. 256 (1857). 

 Cinnyris chalybeus, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 314 



(1876); Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 425. 

 Nectarinia intermedia, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1878, p. 3. 



Professor Barboza du Bocage has kindly sent me a specimen of his Nectarinia intermedia, 

 collected by M. Anchieta at Caconda. It is a male of this species in partial moult. The locality 

 is interesting, as it extends the range of C. chalybeus into Benguela. 



Page 257. Cixxyeis chloropygius. Add: — 



Nectarinia chloropygia, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 55 (1854); Hartl. J. f. O. 1860, p. 109 ; 



Hein. torn. cit. p. 136; Reichen. J. f. O. 1S77, p. 25; Bocage, Orn. dAngola, p. 170 



(1877). 

 Antliodiceta chloropygia, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265 ; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. 7th 



series, i, p. 106 (1877) ; id. Nouv. Arch. Mus. i, p. 87 (1878). 

 Cinnyris chloropygius, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 41. 



It has been collected in the Congo district by M. Petit, at Landana and Chinchonxo. 



Page 261. Cixxyeis guttukalis. Add: — 



Cinnyris senegalensis, Hahn, Orn. Atlas, Cinnyris, pi. 1 (1834). 



Nectarinia natalensis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 55 (1854); Sperling, Ibis, 1868, p. 289. 



Nectarinia gutturalis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1873, p. 197 ; 1874, p. 51 ; 1876, pp. 151, 162 ; 



1877, p. 66; id. Orn. dAngola, p. 164 (1877) ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1877, pp. 178, 208; Cab. 



J. f. O. 1878, p. 227 ; Fischer & Reichen. torn. cit. p. 260 ; Bocage, Join. Lisb. 1878, p. 2. 

 Cinnyris gutturalis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 311 (1876); Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878. 



p. 355. 



Throughout the Zanzibar coast it appears to be plentiful, and evenly distributed ; for I have 

 received it in Dr. Kirk's collections from Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, and the Pangani river. 



In Angola M. Anchieta met with it in bands of several individuals in the Humbe district, 

 and was much struck with the sweetness and variety of its song. 



Page 269. Cixxyeis ametiiystixus. Add: — 



1 Cinnyris erythrothorax, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 507 (1819). 

 Nectarinia amethyst in us, Bocage, Orn. dAngola, p. 163 (1877). 

 Cinnyris amethystinus, Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 294. 



To this species I think Vieillot's Cinnyris crythrothorax should probably be referred ; but the 

 description is far from being conclusive, and the type no longer exists. 



