family XXV. N E C T A R IN I ID Æ .
{Cf. Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. pp. 1-12(5, 1884.)
Sub-family I. NE0D11EPANINÆ.
{Cf. Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 12, 1900.)
I. NEODREPANIS, Sharpe.
(Gadow, % c. p. 2 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 12.)
1. coruscans, Sharpe. ,(p. 2.) Madagascar.
' (Shelley, Monogr. Nect. pi. i. ; id. B. Africa,
ii. p. 12, 1900.)
Sub-family I I . N EC TA R IN UNAS.
(Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 13, 1900.)
I I. HEDYDIPNA, Cab.
(Shelley, i. c. p. 14.)
Nectarinia, pt., Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 15 (1884).
1. m e ta llic a {Licht.). (p. 8.) N.E. Afriqa
(Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 15.) (Nubia to Kordofan,
Abyssinia, and
Somali-land).
2. m u e lle r i, Lorenz <Sf Hellm. Orn. MB. p. 38 S. Arabia.
(1901) ; id. Denksch. Akad. Wien,
lxxi. p. I l l , Taf. i. figs. 3, 4 (1902).
[Cf. Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 520.]
3. p la tu r a ( Vieill.). (p. 10.) W. Africa
(Shelley, t. ç, _p. 16.) (Senegambia to
Sierra Leone).
Equatorial Africa
(Niam-niam to
Upper White Nile
districts, Lado, &c.).
III. NECTARINIA, Illig.
(Gadow, t. c. p. 3, pt., 1884.
Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 17, 1900.)
1. famosa {Linn.), (p. 5.)
(Shelley, t. o. p. 19.)
S. Africa
(Cape Colony to
Namaqua-land,
Natal and
E. Transvaal).
2. subfamosa, Salvad., Ann. Mus. Genov. 1884, Shoa.
p. 138*.
3. cupreoniten s, Shelley, (p. 6.) E. & N.E. Africa.
(Shelley, t. o. p. 21.) R. Shiré and
æneigularis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, pp. 444, 590. Nyasa-land to
Equatorial Africa
(Sot.ik &c).
Abyssinia.
? Senegambia.
4. jonnstom, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 227, pl.xiv.;
id. B. Africa, ii. p. 22 (1900).
deoheni, Lorenz, in Höhnel, Teleiki’s Exp. Lake
Rudolf, i. p. 374.
E. Africa
(Mt. Kilimanjaro,
Mt. Kenia).
5. salvadorii, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 61 Nyasa-land.
(1903).
6. p u lc h e lla {Linn.), (p. 7.) . W. Africa
(Shelley, t. o. p. 24.) (Senegambia to
the Niger).
Equatorial Africa
(Niam-niam to
Lake Baringo,
Lado, &c.).
Abyssinia- Shoa.
Kordofan. Bogos-land.
Count Salvador! assures me that his N. subfamosa is not identical with N. cuprto-
initens, but is more closely allied to the true N. famom.