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to the line of the eyeSj imbricated^ deep green^ posterior row of 
feathers violet; below dark umber brown, with purple lights; 
chin velvet black ; gular patch yellowish green, bordered by a 
maxillary stripe of deep green, extends to the upper part of the 
breast, and has the last row of feathers deep steel blue, tipped 
with scarlet, appearing like a terminating scarlet thread; bill, 
tarsi, and feet black. 
Length, 5 inches ; bill to forehead, ; wing to longest quill, 
2 inches 
Habitat. Fernando Po, West Africa, where it is one of the 
most interesting of the feathered race; when the papaw 
{Pwpaya carici^ is in flower, its sweet juice is the favourite food 
of these and the other C innyridee. The specimen from which 
Sir W. Jardine figured the C. Stangeri, was shot by Dr. Thom- 
son, who presented it to Dr. Stanger, as also others to the 
British Museum. 
Cinnyris Ehoensis, (Thomson.) Rectarinia Adelberii, (Jard, 
Nat. Lib., VoL XXXVL, p. 244.) 
Cin, unice flavescenti-umbra-fusca supra, alls, femoribus, 
caudaque leviter obscurioribus ; macula coronaria, imbricata 
saturate viridi ; inento infra velveto-uigro, emarginato linea inaxil- 
lari, profunde viridi ; collo anteriore, pectoreque flavescenti- 
melinis, fimbriatis subter obscuro-umbra-fuscis : abdomiue lateri- 
busque pallide castaneis; rostri pedibusque nigris. 
“Above, uniform yellowish umber brown, slightlydarker on the 
wings and tail ; coronal patch passing the line of the eyes, 
imbricated, deep green. Below, chin velvet black, bordered by 
a maxillary stripe of deep green ; fore part of the neck and 
upper breast, straw-yellow, bordered on the lower edge by dark, 
umber brown; lower breast, belly, and sides pale chesnut-brown 
and under tail covers dark umber brown ; bill, tarsi, and feet black. 
Length, 4 inches ; bill to forehead, y\, wing to longest 
quill, 
Female, dark hair brown; on the quills and tail nearly umber 
brown ; underneath pale yellowish grey, clearest in the middle 
of the belly ; the feathers darker along the centre of each ; bill, 
legs, and tarsi, dark umber brown. 
Length, 4 inches -f-Q, 
