48 CINNYRIS NECTARINIOIDES. 



The type of the species came from the neighbourhood of 

 Masowa, and the type of Nectarinia gularis, Kupp., a bird in 

 the moult, from Kordofan, which is the most western known 

 locality for this species. 



Cinnyris nectarinioides. 



Cinnyris nectarinioides, Eichmond, Auk, xiv. p. 158 (1897) Kilimanjaro. 



" Entire head, neck, back, rump, and lesser wing-coverts metallic brassy 

 green ; upper tail-coverts metallic steel-blue ; lower throat narrowly edged 

 with metallic deep blue ; breast with a broad band of orange vermilion ; 

 yellow pectoral-tufts present ; abdomen, under tail-coverts, wings and wing- 

 coverts (except least), under wing-coverts, and tail, black, the latter with 

 the feathers (central ones particularly) edged with purple basally, and with 

 green on terminal half. Bill, feet and tarsi black in dried skin. Wing 2-03 

 inches ; tail 1-47 ; narrow centre feathers 2-25 ; tarsus, '60, culmen, '70. 

 Another adult male, obtained October 22, 1888, at Aruscha-wa-chini, south 

 west of Kilimanjaro, measures : wing 2-07 inches ; tail 1-47 (central pair of 

 feathers narrow but not fully grown) culmen -72. This specimen agrees 

 very closely with the type, but the greater wing- coverts are narrowly edged 

 with metallic green" (Eichmond). 



Richmond's Wedge-tailed Bifasciated Sunbird inhabits 

 the Kilimanjaro district. 



The species is, I believe, only known by the two specimens 

 collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott on the plains to the east of 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, October 1, 1888, and now in the 

 United States' National Museum, so I have quoted Mr. 

 Richmond's original description, to which he adds : " This 

 species seems to be related to G. mariquensis, or to one of its 

 subspecies, but differs from all of them in the possession of 

 moderate yellow pectoral-tufts, and in the very narrow long 

 central tail-feathers, which project three quarters of an inch 

 beyond the rest of the tail." 



