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CINNYRIS AMETHYSTINUS. 



(AMETHYST SUN-BIRD.) 



Soui-manga a front dore, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. dores, ii, pp. 21, 22, pis. 5, 6 (1802). 



Sucrier velours, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 160, pi. 294 (1808); Sundev. Krit. ora. Levaill. 



p. 56 (1857). 

 Certhia amethystina, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii, p. 195 (1811). 

 Certhia aurifrontalis, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 192, no. 77 (1812). 

 Cinnyris amethystinus, Cuv. Regnc Anim. i, p. 412 (1817); Less. Traite d'Orn. i, p. 294, 



no. 12 (1831); Swains. B. W. Afr. ii, p. 134 (1837); Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 406, no. 2 



(1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i, p. 101, no. 555 (1850) ; Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265 ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 425; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 315, no. 300 (1877). 

 Cinnyris auratifrons, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 502 (1819); Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 



Meth. ii, p. 590 (1823). 

 Meropine Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv, p. 223, no. 11 (1822). 

 Amethystine-throated Creeper, Lath. torn. cit. p. 254, no. 51, and var. a. 

 Nectarinia aurifrons, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 15 (1823); Less. Man. d'Orn. ii, p. 42 (1828); 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 55 (1854). 

 Nectarinia auratifrons, Drapier, Diet. Class, xv, p. 511 (1829). 

 Nectarinia amethystina, Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 195, 256, pi. 13 (1842); Hartl. J. f. O. 



1854, p. 10, no. 107; Mull. J. f. O. 1855, p. 14, no. 146; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 44 



(1857); Grill, Zool. Anteckn. pp.10, 39(1858); Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 207 ; Hartl. 



J. f. O. 1861, p. 108; Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, p. 246; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 79, no. 132 



(1867); Gray, Hand-1. B. i, p. 107, no. 1305 (1869); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1869, p. 340; 



Finsch & Hartl. V6g. Ost-Afr. p. 220 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 38, no. 361 (1871) ; 



Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, p. 13 (1875); Gadow, J. f. O. 1876, p. 419; Barratt, Ibis, 



1876, p. 203; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1877, p. 153; 1878, p. 2. 

 Chalcomitra amethystina, Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 277, no. 641, pi. 567, figs. 3861-63 



(1854). 



c? ad. supra velutino-niger, sub certa luce lilacino-bronzino nitens : alis caudaque cuprescenti-brunneis, tectri- 

 cibus extus velutino nigro limbatis, minimis chalybeis violaceo adumbratis : supracaudalibus metallice 

 igneo-lilacinis : fronte et vertice metallice viridibus, postice vix aurato nitentibus : loris nigris : facie 

 laterali, capitis collique lateribus et corpore subtiis velutino nigris, gutture metallice lilacino : subalaribus 

 pectori concoloribus : remigibus infra bronzino-brunneis : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride saturate brunnea. 



5 ad. supra, cinerascenti- brunnea, olivaceo lavata : pilei plumis medialiter saturate brunneis quasi marmo- 

 ratis : supracaudalibus saturate brunneis, pallide cineraceo marginatis : tectricibus alarum brunneis pallide 

 cineraceo marginatis : remigibus brunneis cineraceo limbatis, secundariis extus paullo olivascentibus : 

 rectricibus nigricanti-brunneis bronzino nitentibus et pallide cinerascenti terminatis, externis latiiis 



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