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^ Forehead black, tinted with bluish-purple ; crown, back 
of the neck, and back, golden green ; rump ultramarine-blue ; 
tail black. — Chin and a pectoral band black; throat and 
fore part of the neck goldeu-green ; belly and vent, yellow ; 
axillary tufts orange. 
Hah. Valleys on the coast of Abyssinia, near Massua, liilpp. 
— Note. Differs from N. mdallim in greater length of bill, 
black pectoral band. The name affinis will probably remain, 
as the same appellation given to a species in a previous part of 
the Synopsis may become a synonim to N. sperata. 
N. madagascaiuensis, Vieillot, 1823. 
Le Gnmpereau violet cle Madagascar , Briss. Omithol. 4to. 
iii. pi. xxxii. figs. 2, 3, p. 638. — Le Souimanga , Yieill. 
Ois. Dor. ii. pi. xviii — Le Souimanga pi'oprement dit, 
C. Madagascariensis, Vieill. Enc. Method. Om. p. 591. 
(J Head, neck, back, scapulary feathers, find less, w.-covers, 
brilliant green, with a shade of violet in particular lights ; the 
lower part of the back, rump, and up. t.-covers, brownish 
olive ; w. brown, feathers edged with olive ; t. black, bordered 
with green. Tliroat and neck, brilliant green ; breast brown, 
separated from the colour of the neck by two transverse bands, 
the upper violet-blue, the lower purplish brown ; the belly and 
lower t.-covers pale yellow ; flanks olive ; axillary tufts yellow. 
— Length, 4 in. 1 line. 
9 Olive-brown ; w. and t. as in — Olive yellow. 
liab. Madagascar, Briss. — Note. First known by descript, of 
Brisson. Figured in Ois. Dor. The former our present au- 
thority. 
N. ANGLADIANUS, Shaw, 1811. 
Le grimpereau verd de Madagascar , Briss. Ornitliol. 4 to. 
iii. pi. xxxiii. figs. 4, 5, p. 641. — L'Angla-dicm. Vieill. 
Ois. Dor. pis. iii., iv. — Souimanga Angla-dian. C. lo- 
tenia , Vieill. Enc. Method. Om. p. 590. 
(J Golden-green ; w. and t. black, feathers bordered with 
green; tliroat and neck golden-green; breast, belly, flanks, and 
