— 218 — 



Chalcomitra senegalensis aequatorialis Rchw. — Rchw. III. p. 464. 



Chalcomitra aziJc aequatorialis Rchw. Neum. : Journ. f, Orn., 1900, p. 296. — 

 van Someren : Ibis, 1916, p. 442. — Ginnyris senegalensis aequatorialis 

 Rchw. Neum.: Journ. f. Orn., 1906, p. 254. 



Tjibisivi . . . ki-kamba. 

 1 (5 ad. 15. 5. Soy. — 1 (5 ad. 18. 8. Kisumu. - 1 <5 juv. 19. 5. Mount 

 Elgon. - 1 6 juv. 23. 8. Kendu. — 1 Q ad. 14. 5. Soy. - 1 JP ad. 18. 6. Kendu. 



This race was not common at any of the above places 

 except Kisumu, where it occurred in «reat numbers. At Soy I 

 saw it in the company of Nectarinia hilimensis along the banks 

 of a little stream flowing through the grass-country, and on Elgon 

 it also frequented the grass-country below the eastern slopes. 

 1 even saw it a few times at an altitude of 7.000 feet on a bush- 

 clad slope of the mountain itself. 



The young male birds are much unlike each other. The 

 upper parts of both are greyish brown and one of them has 

 the green glossy patch of the throat limited towards the sides 

 by a black patch, which in turn is widely edged with white, 

 (in the other the white is missing). The brownish black feathers 

 of the lower surface are in one of them furnished with narrow, 

 white tips (in the centre of the underparts the tips are yellow- 

 ish white) in the other the white of the lower surface is greyish 

 yellow, as the feathers have broad yellow tips, between which 

 the dark patches of the underlying feathers are visible. 

 Wing, tarsus, 



75, 75 mm. 18 mm. cfcT ad. 



73, 77 mm. 18 mm. cTcT juv. 



67, 69 mm. 17 mm. 99 ad. 



Irides, bill and legs as in the preceding. 



Chalcomitra senegalensis inaestimata Hart. — Rchw. III. p. 465. 

 4 (5c5 ad. 26. 4.-29. 4; 1 Q ad. 26. 4. Mombasa. 



This Sunbird was common in the small woods in the coast- 

 land at Mombasa. 



Reichenow (op. cit.) considers this form synonymous with 

 the South-African gutturalis, but Neumann (Journ. f. Orn., 

 1900, p. 296) points out that Hartert (Under the African Sun, 

 p. 351) has correctly separated the smaller East African bird 

 from the larger East African and after examining the collections 

 in the Berlin Museum (with reference to this question) I agree 

 with Neumann. 



In the Journ. f. Orn., 1906, p. 252—256 Neumann has 

 in a most deserving manner dealt with the "form circle" senega- 

 lensis and includes no less than 12 related forms. But if we examine 

 this list a little more closely we shall find that of these forms 

 4 occur in the Kilimanjaro regions: 



