— 33° — 



The bird from Lake Stéphanie has been separated oy Mearns 

 (Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 48, p. 386) iinder the name C. v. blicki. 

 He compared it with 6^ ahliventris (which I do not consider even 

 to belonç to the venustus group) and with (\ v. falkensteini. We 

 hâve only one Lake Stéphanie spécimen in the British Muséum, so 

 that it is hardly fair to judge, but in this skin I cannot see the 

 différences which Mearns alledged to exist. Reichenow's Ccyaiies- 

 cciis is ah-eady included by the author as a synonym oi falkoistciiii. 



5. — CiNNYKIS VENUSTUS NIASSAE. 



Cinnyris affinis niassae RcHW., O. M., 189g, p. 172 : Nyasaland. 



Range. — Nyasaland, N. and S. Rhodesia, Portuguese East 

 Africa. 



6. — Cinnyris venustus igneiventris. 



Ciiinwis igneiventris Rchw., O. M., 1899, p. 171 : Karagwe. 



Range. — N. W. Tanganyika Teiritory, Uganda and Ruwenzori. 



Cinnyris chloropygius chloropygius, 



Nectarinia chloropygia Jard., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., X, 1842, 

 p. 188. — Type locality : Niger River. 



Mr Lowe obtained three examples of the Scarlet-coUared Sun- 

 bird at \\\\ near Lagos in Deceniber and January. The only other 

 spécimen from Nigeria in the British Muséum is the type from the 

 Niger River; Mr. Lowe tells me that it was very common every- 

 where at the time of his visit. 



Since Reichenow published his Vôg. Afr. this Sunbird has not 

 been reviewed until Messrs Sclater and Praed enumerated the 

 races which they recognised in the Ibis 1918, p. 618. Much of the 

 work done since Reichenow wrote was incorporated in their paper, 

 but they made two mistakes. 



In the first place they give the range of the typical bird « from 

 the Niger to Angola » and secondly they remark that « Gold Coast 



