xlviii CLASSIFICATION. 



Page 339. Anthreptes collaeis. Add : — 



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

 Cinnyris metallicus, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 294 (1831). 



Anthodiceta collaris, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 320 (1876). 



In my original article I referred this species to the genus Anthodiceta ; it should stand as 

 Anthreptes collaris. 



Page 343. Anthreptes zambesiana. Add : — 



Anthodiceta zambesiana, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 321 (1876); Nicholson, P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 356. 

 Anthodiceta collaris, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 226. 

 Nectarinia collaris, Fischer & Reichen. torn. cit. p. 260. 



In the Zanzibar district this is a common and widely spread species. 



In the original article, for Anthodiceta zambesiana read Anthreptes zamlesiana ; and for the 

 last paragraph read that the figure is taken from the type specimen in the British Museum. 

 The lower figure in the illustration alone belongs to this species. 



Page 345. Anthreptes hypodila. Add : — 



Nectarinia subcollaris, Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche &c. p. 13 (1875). 



Cinnyris hypodilvs, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. S. Z. France, 1876, p. 41. 



Nectarinia hypodilus, Bocage, Orn. d' Angola, p. 176 (1877); Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 25. 



Anthodiceta subcollaris, Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. 7th series, i, p. 106 (1877). 



Anthodiceta hypodila, Oust. N. Arch. Mus. i, p. 85 (1878). 



Subfamily III. Araohnotherin.£. 



Form more robust and heavier than in the other subfamilies. Metallic colours never 

 present. Head with or without bare skin, but never wattled. Bill long ; keel of the lower 

 mandible always decurved. Bill stouter and rougher than in the other subfamilies. Membrane 

 over the nostrils bare. First primary shortest. Feathers on the sides of the back often of a 

 downy texture and rather long. Tail square or rounded. Tarsus proportionally shorter and 

 stouter, and never dark brown or black. 



Mange. Indian, Malay, and Philippine regions. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Culrnen compressed into a sharp ridge between the nostrils Arachnothera. 



b. Culnien not compressed into a sharp ridge between the nostrils, but broad, 



flattened or rounded .... Aruchnoraphis . 



