striking character of the wattles round the eyes. These are not developed in the British-Museum 

 specimen ; and thus it was that Mr. Sharpe did not mention them. I wish to retract my obser- 

 vation that, with the exception of the wattles, the sexes are similar in plumage, as it was founded 

 on the belief that the British-Museum specimen was a female ; and I must also correct the state- 

 ment that the first primary is nearly obsolete, the feather taken for the first primary being in 

 reality the outer primary-covert. 



So far removed is this species from all the other Cinnyridse that it must be placed in a 

 separate subfamily, to which I here give the name of Neodrepaninae, with the following cha- 

 racters: — General appearance, form of the tongue, nostrils, and feet as in Cinnyris; wing with 

 ten primary quills, the first not obsolete, but sinuated or cut away on the inner margin towards 

 the tip, which is sharply pointed, this quill not much shorter than the second and longer than 

 the seventh ; bill long, much curved, and tapering to a fine rather flexible point ; tail square and 

 short. Males in full plumage have wattles of bare skin on the sides of the head. 



The knowledge of this very interesting form is due to that energetic collector Mr. Crossley, 

 who has kindly informed me that he only met with it at Ampasmanhave, about 150 miles to the 

 south-west of Tamatave. As he is again about to start for Madagascar, we may hope to obtain 

 some additional information respecting this and the many other novelties with which he has 

 made us acquainted of late years. 





