36 CINNYRIS CUPREUS. 



Cinnyris cupreus. 



Cinnyris cupreus (Shaw), Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 191, pi. 58 (1879) ; id. 



Ibis, 1883, p. 547 Niger ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 55 (1884) ; 



Sharpe, Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool. xvii. p. 428 (1884) Nyam-nyam ; 



Dubois, Mus. E. Belg. 1886, p. 148 Tanganyika; Hartert, J. f. O. 



1886, p. 580 Niger ; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 306 Leopoldsville ; 



Shelley, P. S. Z. 1888, p. 38 Mundri ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 593 



Kitosh; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1891, p. 391 Togoland ; id. Vog. Deutsch 



0. Air., p. 212 (1893) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 17, 1894, p. 14 



Nyasa ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1894, p. 41 Camaroons ; Kuschel, J. f. O. 



1895, p. 347 (egg) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 16 (1896) ; Eeichen. 



J. f. O. 1896, p. 37 Camaroons ; 1897, p. 47 Togoland, Dahomey ; 



Neum. J. f. 0. 1898, p. 237 Bukoba; Hartert, in Ansorge's "Under 



Afr. Sun," App. p. 350 (1899) Onyoro. 

 Nectarinia cuprea, Bouvier, Bull. S. Z. France, 1877, p. 450 Uganda ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 173 (1877) Congo; Pelz. Verh. Wien. xxxi. 



p. 609 (1881) ; Hartl. Abhandl. Brein. 1881, p. 108, 1882, p. 205, 



1891, p. 28 Upper White Nile. 

 Nectarinia chalcea, Hartl., Sousa, Journ. Lisb. 1887, p. 94 Quissange ; 



1889, p. 45 Quiiidumbo. 

 Cinnyris chalceus, Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1888, p. 231 Mossamedes. 



Adult Male. Entire head, neck, back and lesser wing-coverts copper 

 colour with greenish gold and lilac reflections ; remainder of the plumage 

 black. Total length 4 inches, culmen 06, wing 2-2, tail 1'85, tarsus 06. 



Adult Female. Above olive, wings and tail dark brown with olive edges 

 to the feathers and with pale ends to a few of the outer tail-feathers ; cheeks 

 and entire under parts pale olive shaded buff. Total length 4-25 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2, tail 1-6, tarsus 06. 



The Common Copper - coloured Sunbird ranges over 

 Tropical Africa generally, from Senegal and Abyssinia south 

 to the Cunene and Zambesi rivers. 



This species is evidently abundant in Senegambia, from 

 whence Swainson received the type of his Cinnyris erythronotus. 

 Major Bulger procured the species on Bulama Island, one of 

 the Bissagos group ; but it has not yet been recorded from 

 Sierra Leone, and Mr. Biittikofer never met with it in 

 Liberia. 



