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belt of fish-cane through which they threaded their way like 

 so many little Estreldas. Oar four specimens were on the 

 moult and two of these were young males in the plumage of 

 the adult female." 



Mr. Alexander "Whyte has met with the species at Zomba, 

 in the Shire highlands in January and September. It is 

 apparently not generally distributed over East Africa, for 

 Dr. Reichenow (Vog. Beutsch 0. Afr. p. 212) only records it 

 from Ugalla and Bukoba, and Mr. Jackson obtained the 

 species only at Kitosh (0° 30' N. lat., 34° 40' B. long.). It must, 

 however, be fairly abundant in the more open country to the 

 north of Victoria Nyanza, for Piaggia met with the species in 

 Uganda, Mr. Ansorge calls it common in Unyoro, and Bmin 

 collected specimens at many places in the Upper White Nile 

 district; but it apparently becomes rarer again as we descend 

 the river, for Von Heuglin informs us that Paul of Wiirtemberg 

 obtained a specimen in South Fasokl, and that he himself 

 considered it scarce on the Upper "White Nile and Sobat 

 rivers, but believed he saw the species in August near Keren 

 in Bogos. 



Cinnyris purpnreiventris. 



Cinnyris purpureiventris, Eeichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1893 ; id. J. f. 0. 1894, 

 p. 102, pi. 1, fig. 2 ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 17 (1896). 



Adult Male. Similar to G. cupreus but larger and with a purple gloss on 

 the breast. Total length 5-2, culmen 0-8, wing 2-65, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-6. 



The Purple-breasted Copper Sunbird is known to me only 

 by the description and figure of the type which formed part 

 of Emin and Stuhlman's collection from Migere in "West 

 Mporora. 



Cinnyris notatus. 



Cinnyris notatus (P. L. S. Mull.), Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 195, pi. 59 

 (1876) ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p 54 (1884) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 

 18 (1896). 



