SYNOPSIS. 
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N. ? eques, Lesson, 1826. 
Sommanga decore , Cinnyris eques , Less. Yoy. de laCoq. i. 
p. 678, and Atlas, pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 
5 Plumage uniform yellowish umber-brown; fore part of 
the neck, throat, and breast, with a gular patch of bright scar- 
let-red ; bill and feet black. — Length 4 in. 5 lines. 
Hub. Island of Waigiou, harbour of Dorery, N. Guinea. 
Lesson. — Note. Known by the plate in Yoy. de la Coq. 
N. siparaja, Raffles, 1822. 
Certliia siparaja , Raff. Trans. Linn. Soe. xiii. p. 299. — 
Cinnyris siparaja , Cat. Zool. Spec. Mem. Sir St. Raff. 
App. p. 673. — Souimanga moustac , N. mysticalis , Temm. 
PI. Col. 126, fig. 3. — (Auct. Cat. Mem. Sir St. Raffles, 
sup. cit.) 
$ Crown, with an imbricated patch of violet passing 
the line of the eyes, a maxillary streak, rump, and t. of the 
same colour ; back of the neck, back, and less, w.-covers, bril- 
liant purplish red ; w. blackish grey ; throat, neck, and breast, 
purplish red (clearer than above) ; belly, vent, and und. 
t.-covers, white ; bill and feet reddish brown. — Length, 4 in. 
Hah. Java, Temm. — Note. This species has the t. -feathers 
elongated and ought to follow N. goalpariensis and latkami. 
N. cardinalinus, Yieillot, 1823. 
Cinnyris cardinalinus , Lc Souimanga cardinalin , Vieill. 
Enc. Method, p. 598. — Lc Sucrier cardinalin , Le Vaill. 
vi. p. 149, pi. 291, 
Head, neck, back, rump, all the up. W.-eovers, up. t.-co- 
vers, and the two long t.-fcathcrs, golden-green; from the 
breast, carmine-red. 
$ With the under parts yellow, instead of carmine-red. 
Halt, Mountains in the country of the Great Namaquois, Lc 
Vaill. — Note. This is of the same form with N. pu/chellus, and 
should stand after it. Vieillot suspects that it is that bird in 
mature plumage ? Known by the dcscript. and figure of 
Le Vaillant. 
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