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previously referred to A. malaccensis, I am now convinced should belong to this species, as well 

 as another specimen collected by Mr. Wallace which I have examined in the Paris Museum. 

 Dr. Meyer, from his personal notes on the birds of Celebes (Ibis, 1879, p. 131), writes: — "A 

 common bird in the Minahassa. Togian Islands, August; Limbotto, July. South Celebes: 

 Batubassi, November ; Makassar, Tello, January. Iris red ; feet greyish green ; claws grey ; sole 

 of the foot yellow ; bill black. Feeds on insects." 



Page 321. Anthreptes chlorigastra. Add : — 

 Anthothreptes chlorog aster, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 763 ; 1878, pp. 287, 951 ; 1879, p. 72. 



Mr. A. H. Everett has collected this species at Valencia, at the southern extremity of Negros, 

 on the island of Zebu, and also from Zamboanga, in Mindanao, and on the island of Basilan. 

 The specimens from Zamboanga and Basilan are of rather small size ; the only adult male, from 

 Zamboanga, measures — total length 4 - 9 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 2 - 6, tail 1*75, tarsus # 7 ; and 

 the throat is strongly shaded with rufous. 



Page 325. Anthreptes pjkenicotis. Add : — 



Nectarinia phosnicotis, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 513 (1829). 



Chalcoparia singalensis, Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, p. 189 (1878). 



Chalcoparia cingalensis, Anderson, Anat. & Z. Researches, Yunnan Exped. p. 662 (1878). 



Anthreptes phoenicotis, Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 166; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 260; id. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 342. 

 Chalcoparia phoenicotis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv, p. 214 (1879). 



The tongue of this species is of the ordinary Anthreptes type — bifurcated, and not quite so 

 long as in Oinnyris ; this I have ascertained from the examination of a specimen kindly sent to 

 me in spirits by Mr. Hume for this purpose, which is now preserved in the British Museum. 



Tn Yunnan this species has been recorded by Mr. Anderson from Sawady. 



Page 331. Anthreptes rectirostris. Add : — 



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Mangusia rectirostris, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265. 



Nectarinia fantensis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, pp. 441, 470. 



Nectarinia gabonica, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 41 (1871); id. Ibis, 1872, p. 70. 



In my original article I describe an immature bird as the adult female, and the throat of 

 that specimen as being huffish yellow instead of ashy white. The true adult female of this 

 species I now feel confident is the Nectarinia gabonica, Sharpe (nee Hartl.), of which the following 

 is a description : — 



Upper parts ashy brown slightly tinted with olive towards the lower back ; wings and tail rather darker 

 brown with the edges of the feathers paler and shaded with olive ; tail tipped with white, most broadly 



