ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 
As a companion to the above, I add a species of Todirostrwm 
from my own collection, of which I can find no description. It was 
purchased m a collection of Bogota Birds. 
Todirostrum multicolor, Strickland. 
Crown, cheeks, and ear-covers, deep rufous or chestnut, paler 
on the chin; anterior margin of the eyes and a spot beneath the 
ear-covers black ; a large patch of cream-colour on the throat, 
followed by a narrow black band on the breast; rest of lower parts 
bright yellow. The chestnut crown is margined on the temples and 
occiput by black, followed by a cinereous band on the hind neck; 
back yellowish olive; wing-covers, remiges, and rectrices, fuscous, 
margined with olive yellow; beak blackish; leg’s pale brown. 
Total length, 3 . 5 ; beak to front, to gape, 6 ; breadth, 2 ; 
height, l; wing, 1.8; medial rectrices, i.3; external, i.i'; tar- 
sus, 6. 
VI— ON A NEW SPECIES OF NECTABINIA. 
Plate LXXXVI. 
In a collection of birds procured on the shores of the Red Sea, 
and on the east coast of Africa by James Daubeny, Esq., Surgeon, 
II. E.I. C. S., are two specimens of a small Nectarinia, which ap- 
pears to me to be a new species. A label attached gave their locality 
as “ Ras Hassoun, African coast.” This I presume to be the head- 
land marked “Ras Hafoun” on Arrowsmith’s map, near the 
extreme easternmost point of the African continent, and in the 
region of Somauly, which has never yet, I believe, been explored 
by naturalists. 
Nectarinia albiventris, Strickland. 
g Crown, cheeks, and upper parts, glossy green, with a purplish 
gloss on the front ; upper tail-covers steel blue ; greater wing- 
covers and remiges pale fuscous brown ; rectrices fuscous, narrowly 
margined with glossy green ; chin and throat steel blue with a 
violet gloss ; breast, belly, and lower tail-covers pure white ; 
