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purplish, less greenish, bronze on the lower back, than typical kili- 

 mensis, and so prefer to recognize filiola as the form of western 

 Uganda and the eastern Belgian Congo from the eastern Ituri to the 

 Kivu district. Gyldenstolpe ^'' also recognizes filiola. He states that 

 the type locality, Njangalo, is in Tanganyika Territory. I have been 

 unable to find Njangalo on any map, and judged from the date (April 

 27) on which Emin collected the type, and a careful reading of the 

 itinerary of Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief expedition, this locality 

 would seem to be between the southwest end of Lake Albert and the 

 north shore of Lake Edward, nearer to the former than the latter. 

 This would put it somewhere along the Uganda-Congo border, but 

 not in Tanganyika Territory. 



Typical examples of kilimensis have slightly more strongly arched 

 bills than do flUola^ or even the birds from Kenya Colony (which 

 are not wholly typical of the present race). 



The adult male is in somewhat abraded plumage; the young male 

 even more so. The latter resembles the adult female in coloration 

 but is a little duller above, especially on the forehead and crown. 



According to van Someren ^^ this sunbird is a common species — 



* * * frequenting native gardens and the wild scrub-country. They were 

 found nesting in June and November. The nest is usually attached to the 

 end of some free-swinging twig about six to ten feet from the ground, and is 

 made of grass, fibres, lichen, and bits of bark, bound together with cobwebs, 

 the interior lined with down. * * * The eggs are pale creamy or bluish, 

 thicldy or sparingly spotted and strealied with ash-brown. 



Alinder ^^ found a nest with two eggs on the northwestern slopes of 

 Mount Elgon on July 14. 



NECTARINIA PULCHELLA LUCmiPECTUS Hartert 



Nectarinia pulcliella lucidipectus Haktert, Nov. Zool., vol. 2S, p. 12.3, 1921 : 



Wad Medani, Blue Nile. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 adult, 3 immature males, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, December 21, 1911- 

 January 29, 1912. 



2 adult males, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 28, 1912. 



15 adult males, 1 immature male, 6 adult females, Gato River near Gardula, 



Ethiopia, April 2-May 14, 1912. 

 1 adult male, east of Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, May 25, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Womo River, north Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, May 30, 



1912. 



I have seen no material of typical pulchella and follow Sclater's 

 list *° in calling the present birds lucidipectus. This race is said to 

 differ from the nominate one in having the reddish pectoral area 



"Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1924, p. 85. 

 « Ibis. 1916, p. 447. 



s^Verh. Orn. Ges. Bayern, vol. 17, p. 261, 1927. 

 *" Systema avium i^ithiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 685, 1930. 



