195 



CINNYRIS NOTATUS. 



(MADAGASCAR SUPERB SUN-BIRD.) 



Grimpereau noir de Madagascar, Buff. PI. Enl. 575. figs. 2, 3. 



Certhia notata, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Anhang, p. 99. no. 32 (1776, ex Buff.) ; Cass. Pr. 



Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 244; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 24. 

 Loten's Creeper (part.), Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 715. no. 16 (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 235. 



no. 24 (1822). 

 U Angala-dian, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 19, pis. 3, 4 (1802). 

 Certhia angaladiana, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 194, pi. 27 (1811). 

 Cinnyris lotenius (part.), Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 590 (1823); Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. 



p. 25 (1828); id. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 294. no. 11 (1831). 

 Cinnyris madagascariensis, Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 225 (1830). 

 Nectarinia angaladiana, Jard. Mongr. Sun-birds, p. 276 (1843); Mull. J. f. O. 1855, p. 16. 



no. 179 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1860, p. 89 ; id. Faun. Madag. p. 52 (1861) ; Koch & E. Newton, 



Ibis, 1862, p. 272 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 162 ; E. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 342 ; id. Ibis, 



1865, p. 239 ; A. Newton, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 834 ; Verr. in Vins. Voy. Madag. Ann. B. p. 2 



(1865) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421 ; Grand. Eev. et Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 355 ; Schl. & Poll. 



Faun. Madag. p. 67 (1868); Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 109. no. 1336 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. 



B. p. 38. no. 354 (1871). 

 Cinnyris angaladiana, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 407. no. 22 (1850). 

 Angaladiana madagascariensis, Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 285. no. 660, pi. 573. 



figs. 3902-4 (1854). 

 Nectarinia notata, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 317. 



S ad. supra metallice viridis, tectricibus minimis et medianis dorso concoloribus, versus marginem alarem 

 chalybeis : tectricibus majoribus remigibusque indigotico nigricantibus, vix violascenti-bronzino lim- 

 batis : rectricibus creruleo nigricantibus, bronzino-viridi anguste margiuatis : mento gulaque metallice 

 viridibus, torque jugulari chalybeo : pectore csruleo-nigro, subcaudalibus violascenti-bronzino ternii- 

 natis : rostro pedibusque nigris : iride saturate brunnea. 



2 ad. supra brunnea : supercilio fulvescente : alis saturate brunneis, pallide brunneo limbatis : cauda nigra, 

 rectricibus paucis nigris albo terminaliter marginatis : subtus fulvescens, plumis macula triangulari 

 mediana magna nigricante marmoratis : mento gulaque superiore concoloribus. 



Hab. in insula " Madagascar " dicta. 



Adult Male. Upper parts metallic green, including the least and median series of wing-coverts, which 

 become steel-blue towards the edge of the wing ; greater series of coverts and the quills blue-black, the 

 feathers occasionally slightly edged with violet-bronze, mostly so on the greater coverts; tail blue- 

 black, the feathers partially edged with bronze-green; chin and throat metallic green, ending in a 

 narrow steel-blue collar ; breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts, and under surface of the wings blue- 



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