322 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
covered by Dr. Kirk during the Livingstone expedition to the Zam- 
besi, and examples are in the same collection from Mombas in 
Eastern Africa. Dr. Kirk says that it was found near Shupanga 
and Lena, but was not very common: its nest was seen suspended 
to grass-stalls. 
It may be briefly described as being similar to A. collaris, but of 
a bright golden copper-colour, the secondaries being merely glossed 
with golden copper, slightly shaded with green. Total length, 4 
inches ; culmen, 0°5; wing, 2°0; tail, 1:5; tarsus, 0°6. 
The female differs exactly in the same way as does that of A. 
collaris. 
3807. CINNYRIS BIFASCIATUS. Western bifasciated Sun-bird. 
Nothing is more curious than the way in which representative 
races of Sun-birds are distributed in Africa. This we have seen in 
the case of C. afer and C. chalybeus, and here we have another case 
in the double-collared species. Captain Shelley has shown that 
there are four forms of these in Africa, one, C. mariquensis, confined 
to South Africa, a second, OC. bifasciatus being West African, while 
C. microrhynchus and C. osiris are inhabitants of Eastern and North- 
Eastern Africa respectively. 
The true C. bifasciatus (Shaw) is, according to Captain Shelley, the 
bird usually called by naturalists C.jardinii, which latter name becomes 
a synonym; and as it extends from Gaboon to Benguela, it must claim 
insertion in the present work on the strength of the latter oceur- 
rence, but it cannot be regarded as a very distinct species from O. 
mariquensis, being only’a slightly smaller race. Senor Anchieta 
procured three specimens in 1866 in the province of Benguela, 
where, he says, it is called by the natives “ Kanjongo.” He has 
also procured it at Dombe in the same province. 
Fam. PARIDZ. 
308. ZosTEROPS CAPENSIS. Cape White-eye. 
The ‘ White-eye” is common throughout the whole of the colony, 
roaming about in small families of from five to twenty in number. 
During the fruit season they do great damage to the apricots, 
peaches, plums, &c.; they also destroy the buds to get at the insects 
