44 CINNYRIS JOHANNJE. 



Nectarinia johannse, Bocage Orn. Angola, p. 166 (1877) Loango. 



Adult Male. Head, neck, back and lesser wing-coverts metallic green ; 

 wings and tail black ; a broad violet-shaded steel blue collar separates the 

 green of the throat from the bright red breast ; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts black ; pectoral-tufts bright yellow. Total length 53 inches, culmen 

 1*2, wing 2-5, tail 1-6, tarsus 0.65. Landana (Petit). 



Adult Female. Above deep olive brown ; a distinct buff eyebrow ; and 

 pale ends to some of the outer tail-feathers ; beneath buff, with broadish 

 dark central stripes to many of the feathers. Total length 4'5 inches, 

 culmen 1-1, wing 2-5, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-65. Abouri, 21. 2. 72 (Shelley). 



The Scarlet-breasted Sunbird is confined to West Africa, 

 where it ranges from Sierra Leone to the Congo. 



Specimens have been collected by Boucier at Sierra Leone, 

 by the late Mr. A. T. Demery at the Sulamah river, and by 

 Mr. Biittikofer on the Junk river in Liberia. la Fantee, 

 Ussher considered these Sunbirds to be very rare, as all his 

 specimens came from the forest of Denkera in the interior. In 

 the Aguapim mountains, during my short stay at Abouri with 

 Mr. T. B. Buckley, we shot six specimens out of the tall 

 flowering trees of the forest ; this was towards the end of 

 February, and like most of the Sunbirds they had not assumed 

 their full breeding plumage, and were at that season on friendly 

 terms with each other, assembling in large numbers around 

 the same clusters of flowers. 



The type of Nectarinia fasciata, Jard., was procured by 

 Fraser at Abomey in Dahomey, and Verreaux's type came 

 from Gaboon, where specimens have since been collected by 

 Du Chaillu near the Moonda river, and by Marche at Doume 

 in the Ogowe district. Petit procured specimens at Landana 

 on the Loango Coast, which is the most southern known limit 

 for the range of this species. 



It is a scarce bird in collections, probably owing to its 

 frequenting the forests, and rarely met with actually on the 

 coast. 



