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PART II.] 



[NOVEMBER, 1876. 



A MONOGRAPH 



OF 



THE CINNYRID^l, 



OR 



FAMILY OF SUN-BIRDS. 



BY 



Captain G. E. SHELLEY, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., &c, 



AUTHOR OP 'A HANDBOOK TO THE BIRDS OF EGYPT,' ETC. 



CONTENTS. 



Plates. 



Descriptions. 



Cinnyris verreauxi. 



-Cinnyris kirkii. 



C. olivaceus. 



- JEthopyga dabryi. 



C. notatus. 



Cinnyris verreauxi. 



C. super bus. 



C. olivaceus. 



C. Johanna. 



Nectarinia cupreonitens 



C. talatala. 



■Cinnyris notatus. 



C. albiventris. 



C. super bus. 



C. afer. 



C. Johanna. 



C. chalybeus. 



C. talatala. 



C. chloropygius. 



C. albiventris. 





— C. afer. 





~~C. chalybeus. 





' — C. chloropygius. 





Promerops cafer. 





" P. gurneyi. 





Anthrobaph.es. violacea. 



LONDON: 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 



AT THE OFFICE OF 



THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION, 



6 TENTERDEN STREET, HANOVER SQUARE, "W. 



Taylor and Francis, Printers,] 



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