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The last group of the suctorial family which belongs 
to the Ornithology of W estern Africa is one of very 
peculiar interest — it is that of 
ANTHREPTES, 
a genus first defined in the Appendix to the 
Northern Zoology, and which until then had been 
confounded with that of Cinnyrvt. The discovery 
of this form has completed the circle by which the 
types of the Cinnyrida ?, or Honey-suckers, return 
into themselves ; or, in other words, the connexion 
of all the divisions among themselves is completed. 
As we have only glanced at this beautiful chain of 
affinities on a former occasion, we shall take this 
opportunity of illustrating it more completely, more 
especially as our observations, having a wide circu- 
lation in this work, may call the attention of ornitho- 
logists particularly to the subject, and induce them 
to increase our present meagre list of this group, by 
separating those species of Anthreptes which are at 
present confounded with the genuine types of Cin- 
nyris. For this purpose, and to render the distinc- 
tions of the two perfectly intelligible without the 
aid of technical language, we will call the attention 
of the student, in the first instance, to the bill of a 
genuine Cinnyris. lie will perceive that the under 
