30 CINNYRIS. 



length 8-2 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 3-1, tail 5-4, tarsus 075. Kikuyu, 

 3 28. 8. 89 (Jackson). 



Adult Female. Like that of N. tacazze but with broad chrome yellow 

 edges to all the quills and tail-feathers. Total length 31 inches, culmen 

 11, wing 2-6, tail 5-4, tarsus, 0-75. Kilimanjaro (H. H. Johnston). 



The Yellow fringed Sunbird inhabits the Masai District, 

 from Kilimanjaro to the Kikuyu country. 



Fischer, who first discovered this species, found it, only 

 on the eastern side of Lake Naiwasha, feeding among the 

 acacia blossoms where the specimens were mostly in the moult 

 in June. Mr. Jackson also found it near Naiwasha in the 

 Kikuyu country on August 28th, and procured a full-plumaged 

 male. 



To the south-east on Kilimanjaro, Sir Harry Johnston 

 collected a male in full plumage and two females at 4,000 and 

 5,000 feet and writes : " Never seen above 5,000 feet. Abun- 

 dant in native plantations, being, in common with most of the 

 Sunbirds, attracted there by the flowers of the sweet potato 

 and various beans and peas." Mr. Hunter likewise met with 

 it on this mountain at 5,000 feet in full plumage in August. 



The only character I can find for the genus Drejiauo- 

 rhynchus is the yellow edges to the quills and tail-feathers, 

 so I have united it to Nectarinia. 



Genus III. CINNYRIS. 



The members of this genus resemble those of Nectarinia in the full- 

 plumaged males having the entire head, neck and mantle of metallic colours, 

 and there being an entire absence of metallic colours on the females and 

 nestling, but differ in the tail being similar in form in both sexes at all 

 seasons, generally square but sometimes graduated. Tail considerably more 

 than half the length of the wing. Culmen about as long as the tarsus, and 

 the keel of the lower mandible slightly curved. 



