181 



CINNYEIS ASIATICUS. 



(PURPLE SUN-BIRD.) 



Purple Indian Creeper, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. ii. p. 116, pi. 265 (1760). 



\Certhia currucaria, Linn. S. N. i. p. 185. no. 6 (1766); P. L. S. Mull. S. N. ii. p. 256. no. 6 



(1773); Gin. S. N. i. p. 474. no. 6 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 285. no. 15(1790); Shaw, 



Gen. Zool. viii. p. 221 (1811); Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 180. no. 15 (1812). 

 \Grey Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 714 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 231. no. 19 (1822). 

 Yellow-winged Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 133. no. 59 (1787); id. Gen. Hist. iv. 



p. 250. no. 44 (1822). 

 CertMa asiatica, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 288. no. 22 (1790); Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 182. 



no. 22 (1812). 

 CertMa chrysoptera, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 299. no. 64 (1790). 

 Sugar-Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 159. no. 4 (1801) ; id. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 238. 



no. 27, cum var. a (1822). 

 Mahratta Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 164. no. 20 (1801). 

 CertMa mahrattensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. Suppl. p. 36. no. 3 (1801). 

 Soui-manga violet, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 31, pi. 12 (1802). 

 Soui-manga a cravatte violette, Aud. et Vieill. torn. cit. p. 35, pi. 15. 

 Soui-manga a, cravatte bleue, Aud. et Vieill. torn. cit. p. 53, pi. 31. 

 Soui-manga a ceinture orange, Aud. et Vieill. torn. cit. p. 56, pi. 34. 

 Soui-manga aux ailesjaunes, Aud. et Vieill. torn. cit. p. 65. 

 CertMa nitens, Hermann, Obs. Zool. p. 137 (1804). 

 CertMa saccharina, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 258 (1811). 

 CertMa cincta, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 193. no. 83 (1812). 

 ? Cinnyris currucaria, Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 412 (1817). 

 Cinnyris maMattensis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 508(1819); Bonn, et Vieill. 



Enc. Meth. ii. p. 595 (1823); Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 99. no. 136 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. 



p. 224. no. 232 (1840). 

 Eastern Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 232. no. 21 (1822). 

 Cinnyris cyaneus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 599. no. 56 (1823). 

 Cinnyris indicus, Bonn, et Vieill. torn. cit. p. 599. no. 59 (1823). 

 Cinnyris iodeus, Less. Diet. Sc. Nat. i. p. 24 (1827). 

 Cinnyris currucaria, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 28 (1828) ; id. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 297. no. 26 



(1831) ; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 98. no. 133. 

 Cinnyris clirysopterus, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 35 (1828). 



Cinnyris asiaticus, Less. torn. cit. p. 36 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 408. no. 37 (1850). ■ 

 Cinnyris orientalis, Horsf. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 122. no. 105; Bulger, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 257. 

 Cinnyris epauletta, Hodgs. Ind. Eev. ii. p. 272 (1837). 



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