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from Fernando Po by Jardine. It is a dark-breasted race with a 

 dull olive-green coloured female and is found on the mainland in 

 Cameroon, Gaboon, Northern Angola and in the North Belgian 

 Congo, where it meets the East African race A. h. zamhesiana. 

 this latter distinguished at a glance by its bright yellow breast, 

 exhibited in both the niale and female. 



Ogilvie-Grant (Ibis, igo8, p. 286) recognised and pointed ont 

 the différences clearly, and it is surprising that subséquent workers 

 hâve not troubled to verify his statement. The third race which 

 must be recognised is that from Upper Guinea. Ogilvie-Grant 

 (1. c, p. 2871 also noted that birds from Sierra Leone were 

 brighter than A. h. zarnbesiana, and with the additional material 

 to hand since he wrote, 1 can fully confirm this; spécimens in the 

 Muséum from Portuguese Guinea and Sierra Leone are obviously 

 distinct and hâve the lower breast and belly washed with orange, 

 They must bear the name A. h. stihcollaris Hartlaub described 

 from Sénégal and Portuguese Guinea. 



Birds from the Gold Coast and Nigeria though generally 

 brighter than A. h. zauibesiana bave not got tnis orange wash and 

 may eventually hâve to ke separated : we cannot unité them 

 with A. h. zamhesiana (as Ogii.vie-Grant did) as they are 

 sepai-ated from that race by typical A. h. hypodila. I hâve 

 therefore provisionaly united them with the Portuguese Guinea 

 bird. 



We must recognise the following races : 



I. — Anthreptes hypodila hypodila. 



Nectarinia hypodilus Jardine, Contrib. Orn., 185 1, p. 153 : 

 Fernando Po. 



Range. — Fernando Po, Cameroon, Gaboon, North Belgian 

 Congo. 



Distinguishing characters. — Upper-parts and throat metallic 

 golden-green, below a narrow collar of metallic violet; rest of 

 underparts dull olive-yellow; wing-coverts and primaries edged 

 with olive-yellow, females hâve dull olive-yellow underparts. 



