xlvi CLASSIFICATION. 



so towards the outer feathers ; eyebrow, cheeks, and sides of the forehead white ; under surface of the 

 body white, shaded with ashy on the crop, sides of the body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts; under 

 surface of the wings brown with pale inner margins to the quills, and with the coverts white; bill and 

 legs black; irides dark brown. Total length 4 inches, culmen 05, wings 2'3, tail 1*6, tarsus 065. 



This specimen forms the subject of the upper figure in the illustration, and is the one of 

 which Mr. Sharpe writes (Ibis, 1872, p. 70): — "Of this curious little Sun-bird Mr. Ussher sends 

 a single specimen from Fantee. I had already noticed it in his Volta collection, but had been 

 unable to determine it until M. J. Verreaux recognized it as N. gabonica, of which the type is in 

 his own collection in Paris. I cannot help having an idea that this bird will prove to be the 

 female of some other species of Sun-bird, though M. Verreaux entertains the contrary belief." 



The generic title of Anthodiceta, which I formerly applied to this species, should be discarded 

 for that of Anthreptes. 



Page 333. Anthreptes tephrol^ma. Add: — 



Nectarinia gabonica, Hartl. J. f. O. 18G1, pp. 13, 109 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i, p. 107, no. 1300 



(1869). 

 Nectarinia chlorolcema, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 7. 

 Anthodiceta tephrolwma, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 69 ; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. 7th series, 



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

 Nectarinia tephroleema, Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c. p. 13 (1875) ; Bocage, Orn. dAngola, 



p. 177 (1877). 



In 187G, when I published the first part of my present work, I described as the adult female 

 of A. tephroleema what I have now no doubt is a bird in immature plumage. This error arose 

 from the sex not being marked on any of the specimens, and from my unwillingness to consider 

 Nectarinia gabonica, Haiti., as specially distinct from N. gabonica, Sharpe; yet I now feel con- 

 fident that the former is the true female of A. tephroleema and the latter that of A. rectirostris. 



Their range exactly coincides ; their measurements agree ; and their colouring, as females of 

 these two species, is not surprising when we compare them with the female of A. longuemarii. 

 1 have been unable to examine a typical specimen of Nectarinia gabonica, Hartl. ; so I here quote 

 the original description : — " Supra cincrea ; rectricibus, duabus intermediis exceptis, macula alba 

 terminatis ; fasciola stricta frontali utrinque supra oculos parum conspicue extendente lorisque 

 albis ; subtus albida, pectore et lateribus subcinerascentibus ; subalaribus niveis ; rostro brevi 

 nigerrimo ; pedibus nigris. Long. 3" 10-11"', rostr. a fr. 5'", al. 2" 1'", caud. a bas. 15'", 

 tar. 6'" (??)." 



In my original article, for Anthodiceta tephroleema read Anthreptes tephrolaema ; and in the 

 description, for "Adult Female" read "Immature bird". 



Nectarinia chlorolama, Haiti., was, I am informed by the author, only a misprint for 

 N. tephroleema. 



