24 NECTARINIA PULCIIELLA. 



The Northern Beautiful Sunbird is confined to North 

 Tropical Africa from the Equator north to about 16° N. lat. 

 This is the commonest species of the genus in collections. 



In Senegambia specimens have been collected by Marche 

 at Dakar, Hann, Ponte, Daranka, Ruffisque and Bathurst. 

 Near the latter place Dr. P. Rendall found it : " Common in 

 the gardens. One nest with two eggs, which were like Black- 

 headed Bunting's in miniature, was in a lime-tree." 



Beaudouin collected specimens at Casamanse and Bissao 

 and Fergusson at Sierra Leone, yet I do not find it recoi'ded 

 from Liberia although it is not uncommon on the Gold Coast, 

 where I met with it in February in the thick bush, near a 

 small brook, at Abrobonko some six miles from Cape Coast 

 Castle, and saw several flitting around the flowering plants at 

 the edge of the native plantations and clearing, but they did 

 not appear to mix with the other Sunbirds which were then 

 so abundant on the flowering trees. 



In the Niger district Forbes procured specimens in August 

 at Lokoja and Rabba, in full plumage, and on the Benin River, 

 at Loko, Mr. Hartert met with it in April, May and June, and 

 found the species very plentiful in the latter mouth. 



It has apparently not been procured from further south 

 along the West Coast. 



Eastward we find that Mr. Bohndorff, on his journey 

 through the Nyam-nyam country, collected specimens at Dem 

 Suleiman, Piaggia in Mtesa's country to the north of "Victoria 

 Nyanza, and on the east side of that lake Mr. Jackson, while 

 near Lake Baringo, found it " very plentiful among the ' red 

 hot poker' plants." 



In the Upper "White Nile district Emin procured the species 

 at Lado, Redjaf, Lahore and Mbero. 



Von Heuglin found it near Bongo and Wan on the Gazal 

 River and remarks that in Nubia it occurs as a straggler as 



