— 347 — 



February and a Q shot January 8th had an egg in the oviduct. — 

 W. P. L.). 



Anthreptes gabonica. 



Nectarinia gabonica Hartl., J. f. O., 1861, p. 13. — Type loca- 

 lity : Gaboon. 



Mr LowE did not raeet with the Plain-coloured Gaboon Sunbird 

 in vSouthern Nigeria but it was obtained by Kemp at Burutu and 

 there are two other spécimens in the British Muséum ( ex Shelley 

 Collection) which were apparently bought in the market at Lagos 

 in October 1879. 



Range. — It is represented in the Muséum from Gambia, Sierra 

 Leone, Gold Coast, Southern Nigeria, Gaboon, and Landana (just 

 north of the Congo mouth). 



Reichenow records it in addition from the Bissagos Isls 

 (Portuguese Guinea), Libéria and Cameroon. 



The spécimen which Shelley mentions (B. of A., II, p. 160) 

 from Fernando Po does not appear to be with the examples of this 

 species in the British Muséum collection. It was very likely 

 wrongly identified and has been since incorporated in its proper 

 place. Salvadori does not mention A. gabonica from Fernando Po 

 in hisOrnitologia délie isole del Golfo di Guinea, III (Fernando Po) 

 in Accad. Reale. Sci. Torino, 1903. 



Anthreptes seimundi. 



Cinnyris seimundi OGiiJVi¥.-GKAHr, Bull. B. O. C, XXIII, igo8, 

 p. 19. — Type locality : Fernando Po. 



A single example of Seimund's Sunbird which had originally 

 been catalogued as Cinnyris (Anthothreptes) batesi was obtained in 

 Southern Nigeria by P. A. Talbot at Mbarakpa on August i8th 

 1909. It certainly is not ^4. batesi ?L\\à I cannot distinguish it from 

 A. seimundi, 



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