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17. Hypherpes corallirostris, A.Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1863, p. 85, pi. 13*. 
“ Sakody.” 
At Chasmanna, on the 2nd of October, I killed this pretty little 
Creeper as it was climbing up a dead tree: it was the only one 
observed, but the natives said it was not uncommon. Iris very 
dark red, beak vermilion, legs lead-colour. Male. 
18. Nectarinia angladiana , Shaw. 
“ Shoie.” 
Observed all along the coast, but at Fenerive only it appeared 
tolerably common. 
19. Nectarinia souimanga (Gmelin). 
Common everywhere. On the 1st of October, paddling up the 
Hivondrona, I found a nest of this bird, containing two eggs, on 
the bank, almost overhanging the water; it was a domed one j*, 
and was very prettily placed in some tall grass, the blue flower of 
a Lobelia bicolor almost closing the entrance. It is composed out¬ 
wardly of broad leaves of grass, decayed, and a little moss; over 
the entrance it has a sort of projecting pouch of a finer grass, 
and inside it is lined with down of some plant. The eggs, which 
were hard-set, are greyish white, thickly freckled with light 
* We subjoin Mr. A. Newton’s description of this entirely new form of 
bird:— 
“ Hypherpes, genus novum Certhianum vel Sittinum. 
“ Char. Gen. —Rostrum breve, robustum, leviter emarginatum, ad apicem 
aliquanto compressum, rictu setoso. Alse mediocres, rotundatse, ad 
caudam mediam attingentes, remige quarto, quinto et sexto aequalibus; 
tertio septimum, et octavo secundum, superantibus; primo multo bre- 
viore; cauda mediocris, prope sequalis, rectricibus duodecim aliquanto 
rigentibus. Pedes validissimi, tarsis quam digiti medii posticique lon- 
gioribus, unguibus compressis, subvalidis. 
“ Hypherpes corallirostris, sp. nov. 
“ Capite, gutture, pectore et abdomine schistaceo-brunneis, olivaceo indutis; 
collo, dorso, alis caudaque supra fusco-cseruleis, virente tinctis ; remi- 
gibus fuscis, extus pallide marginatis, intus cervino latius limbatis, ut 
in Tichodroma ; uropygio et crisso subrufescentibus; rectricibus ob¬ 
solete fasciatis; rostro toto coccineo; pedibus plumbeis; iridibus 
obscure rubris. Long. tot. 4*8 ; rostr. a fr. *4, a rict. *65; al. 2*9; 
caud. 2’2 ; tars. ’9 ; dig. med. c. ung. ’8, post. *97 .”—Ed. 
t I mentioned (Ibis, 1862, p, 272) that last year I observed an open 
nest of this species; as it was only building, I presume the birds had not 
put the roof on when I saw it. 
