28 NECTARINIA KILIMENSIS. 



Antinori from Keren ; and Salt procured the type of the species 

 in Tigre at the Tacazze river, a tributary of the Atbara. 



Nectarinia kilimensis. (Pi. 1, fig- 1.) 



Nectarinia kilimensis, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 555, 1885, p. 227 1889, 

 p. 3G5 Kilimanjaro ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 591 Masai, Ml. Elgon ; 

 Eeichen J. f. 0. 1892, p. 55 Bukoba Uganda ; id. Vog. Deutsch 0. 

 A'fr. p. 212 (1894) ; Bocago, Journ. Lisb. 1893, p. 159 ; Scott Elliot, 

 P. Z. S. 1895, p. 342 liu.iven.~ori ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 14 (1896) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1897, p. 523 Ni/asa. 



Nectarinia filiola, Ilartl. J. f. 0. 1890, p. 154 Njangalo ; id. Abhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Brem. xii. p. 27 (1891) ; Emin J. f. O. 1891, p. 346. 



Nectarinia gadowi, Bocage Journ. Lisb. 1893, p. 256 Gaianga. 



Adult male. Similar to N. tacazre but differs in the head and neck being 

 more metallic green, glossed with copper and shading into fiery copper on 

 the back; scapulars and upper tail-coverts with a greenish shade and no 

 lilac reflections ; wings and tail with no shade of blue ; metallic edges of the 

 tail-feathers lilac bronze. Chin and throat metallic coppery green not 

 passing into lilac on the front of the chest, which with the remainder of 

 the under parts is dull black. Total length 87 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 

 2-9, tail 56, tarsus 0'75. Kilimanjaro (H. H. Johnston). 



A/1 n 1 1 female. Similar to that of N. tacazze but with the throat less 

 olive. Total length 5 inches, culmen 095, wing 265, tail 2'15, tarsus 075. 

 Kilimanjaro (II. II. Johnston). 



The Kilimanjaro Bronze Sunbird ranges over Central 

 Africa from north of the Cunene and Zambesi rivers to about 

 one degree north of the Equator. 



The extreme south-western range, yet known, for this 

 species is Gaianga, where Anchicta procured the specimen 

 which is the type of N. gadoid, and its extreme south-eastern 

 range is the Nyika Plateau in Nyasaland where Mr. Alexander 

 Whyte collected three specimens in June. 



Dr. Hartlaub records specimens sent by Emin from 

 Njamgaba, Begucra, and Ruganda, and proposed to call these 

 N. filiola, but Dr. R. B. Sharpe informs us that they are not 

 distinct from N. Icilimensis, he having compared a typical 



