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obtained many specimens on the Moonda and Camtna rivers, 

 and also at Cape Lopez, while Marche met with it at Lope, on 

 the River Ogowe. 



In the early days of the century, Perrein obtained the 

 original examples of the Copper-coloured Sunbird at Malimbe, 

 in the Congo district, and it has been more recently obtained 

 there by Falkenstein near Chinchonxo, Petit at Landana, and 

 by the late Captain Sperling at Kabinda. Mr. Bohndorff has 

 also procured the species at Leopoldsville on the Lower Congo. 

 In Angola it has been met with by Monteiro at Cabambe, 

 and by Welwitsch at Galungo Alto, and it is one of the few 

 truly West- African species which cross the Quanza River, for 

 Anchieta has found it at Quissange and Quindumbo, and the 

 Leyden Museum has received specimens collected by Mr. 

 Van der Kellen at Humpata on the Cunene river. 



In an account of a collection made by Captain Storms 

 during his journey to Lake Tanjanyika, Dr. Dubois records the 

 present species. 



At Chia, where the Shire river runs into the Zambesi, 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander collected four males, all in moult, in 

 July, and writes : " This Sunbird is very partial to localities 

 near the river where patches of flowering weed grow, from 

 which it is hard to drive away, always returning to the same 

 spot after a short circuitous flight which is even more jerky 

 and erratic than in Chalcomitra guttv/ralis, the latter bird being 

 often found in its company. It was close to the mouth of the 

 Shire river, where we landed on July 21st for our mid-day 

 meal, that we observed this species, frequenting a strip of red 

 flowering plants, close to a cluster of native huts. After 

 chasing the birds backward and forward for some time, they 

 got to know our tactics and became very cunning, dropping 

 down at our approach into the bottom of the weed where they 

 crept about like mice. Towards evening they resorted to a 



