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E. long.) feeding from the flowers of the Leonotis, and he 

 considered the species to be not rare in Masailand. He 

 describes the nest as like that of the generality of Sunbirds, 

 and the eggs as being of a pale greyish colour freckled with 

 violet-grey and with S-shaped streaks mostly towards the 

 thick end and measuring - 65 inch by 045 inch. At Ndara, 

 east of Kilimanjaro in the Teita country, Mr. Hunter procured 

 three males on August 25th, all of which were in the moult. 

 On January 7th, Mr. Jackson shot a male in full plumage at 

 Ulu in Ukambani. 



Emin has recorded its presence in the country just south 

 of Victoria Nyanza. From the above it would appear that 

 the breeding plumage of the males is assumed in the beginning 

 of the year and discarded again in August. 



Nectarinia bocagii. 



Nectarinia bocagii, Shelley, Mon. Nect. pp. 21, xviii. pi. 6, fig. 2 (1879) ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 545 (1881); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 12 



(189G). 

 Nectarinia tacazze (nee Stanley) Bocage, Journ. Lisb. 1878, pp. 196, 269 



Caconda ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 4 (1884, pt. Angola). 



Adult Male. Black ; head, back and lesser wing-coverts steel blue with 

 lilac and green reflections ; entire throat steel blue with a strong green 

 shade. Total length 8 inches, culnien 1, wing 3 - l, tail 4-2, tarsus 0-7. 

 Caconda (Anchieta). 



Bocage's Bronze Sunbird is a native of Benguela, and 

 has only been recorded from Caconda where Anchieta procured 

 several specimens, but considered it a very rare species. 



Nectarinia tacazze. 



Nectarinia tacazze (Stanley), Shelley, Mon. Nect., p. 19, pi. 7 (1877) ; 

 Bouvier, Bull. S. Z. France, 1877, p. 451 Uganda ; Gadow. Cat. B. 

 M. ix. p. 4 (1884, pt. N. E. Africa) ; Salvad. Arm. Mus. Genov. 1884, 

 p. 138, 1888, p. 244 ; Gigl. 1. c. p. 40 Shoa ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 

 591 Kikuyu; Neumann, J. f. 0. 1896, p. 250 Masai; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. I. No. 13 (1896), Neumann ; J. f. 0. 1898, p. 240. 



