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differs from A. longuemarii in having the metallic parts confined to 
the throat and front half of the crown, and in having a broad 
band of scarlet down the centre of the chest, and the under tail- 
coverts also scarlet. The following is Captain Shelley’s descrip- 
tion : Adult male—Upper parts dusky brown, as well as the sides 
of the head and neck; feathers of the forehead and front of the 
crown broadly edged with steel blue glossed with green; lower 
back and upper tail-coverts shaded with olive; wings dark brown 
with paler brown edges to the quills; tail-feathers dark brown 
with very narrow paler edges; chin and throat blackish-brown 
with broad steel blue edges to the feathers of the throat; chest 
sulphur-yellow on the sides, with a broad central band of bright 
scarlet; abdomen and thighs pale olive-yellow, shading into 
sulphur-yellow towards the centre; under tail-coverts orange-red ; 
under surface of the wings dark brown with pale inner margins 
to the quills, and with the coverts mottled with ashy white; 
bill and legs black; iris dark brown. Total length, 4:5 inches; 
culmen, 0°5; wing, 2°4; tail, 1:6; tarsus, 1°7. 
Fig. Shelley, Monogr. Nect. pl. 106. 
Page 322. Insert :—ANTHOTHREPTES LONGUEMARII, Less. 
Longuemare’s Sun-bird. 
Also discovered by Senor Anchieta at Caconda. Itis a species hitherto 
known only from Senegambia and Abyssinia, and Captain Shelley 
says that the Caconda examples are identical with others from 
Casamance. 
The following descriptions are taken from his ‘‘ Monograph :”— 
Adult male.—Upper parts metallic bluish-violet; wings dark brown ; 
the least series of wing-coverts metallic bluish-violet, with a few 
of the outermost ones metallic green; median series of wing- 
coverts narrowly edged with metallic violet; tail dark brown 
washed with metallic violet, and with edges of metallic violet to 
the feathers ; sides of the head and sides of the neck dark brown ; 
under parts white ; chin and throat metallic bluish-violet ; pectoral 
tufts sulphur-yellow; under surface of the wings dark brown, 
with the coverts white, mottled along the bend of the wing with 
dark brown; bill brown, paler towards the base of the lower 
mandible ; irides and legs dark brown. Total length, 49 inches ; 
culmen, 0°65; wing, 2°9; tail, 2°3; tarsus, 0°7. 
Adult female.—Upper parts ashy brown : upper tail-coverts metallic 
bluish-violet ; tail dark brown washed with metallic violet, and 
with violet edges to these feathers; a broad white eyebrow; sides 
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