C1NNYRIS ERYTIIROCERIUS. 19 



Cinnyris erythrocerius. 



Cinnyris erythrocerius (Heugl.) Shelley, Mon. Necfc. p. 209, pi. 64, tig. 2 

 (1878) ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 44 (1884) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, 

 p. 38 Wadelai ; Emin, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 340 ; Beichen. J. f. 0. 1892, 

 p. 55, id. Vog. Deutsch 0. Afr. p. 211 (1894) Kagehi, Bokoba ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 24 (1896); Neumann, J. f. 0. 1898, p. 235 

 Baschuonjo. 



Nectarinia erythroceria, Keichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 75 Victoria Nyanza ; 

 Hartl. Abhandl. Bremen, 1881, p. 108; Pelz. Verh. Wien. xxxi. 

 p. 144 (1881) Upper White Nile. 



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

 slightly glossed with blue on the back ; upper tail-coverts steel blue ; wings 

 and tail black. At the base of the metallic green throat is a narrow metallic 

 violet collar followed by a broad scarlet pectoral-band, the feathers of which 

 have narrow subterminal metallic violet bars ; remainder of the under parts 

 black. Total length 5'2 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-4, tail 2, tarsus 0-6. 

 Magungo, 26. 11. 79 (Emin). 



Adult female. Upper parts and sides of head ashy, with a faint olive 

 shade on the scapulars and lower back ; tail blackish and graduated with 

 partial whitish margins to the feathers. Beneath yellowish buff, throat 

 blackish with narrow buff edges to the feathers, and a buff mustachial 

 band ; chest and flanks mottled with olive. Total length 4-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing 2-1, tail 1-7, tarsus 06. Magungo, 20. 11. 79 (Emin). 



Heuglin's "Wedg'e-tailed Sunbird inhabits the Victoria 

 Nyanza and Upper White Nile districts, and possibly ranges 

 further south ; but the correctness of the following two 

 references may be fairly doubted : 



Nectarinia gonzenbachii, Antin. Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 320 

 (1867). 



N. erythrocerca, Heugl. (?) Bohm. J. f. O. 1883, p. 193. 



The most southern positively known locality for this 

 species is Kagehi in Usukuma at the south end of Victoria 

 Nyanza. Mr. Neumann records it from Rashuonjo and. Emin 

 has collected specimens at Bukoba, AVadelai and, in that latter 

 district, also at Redjaf, Kiri, Muggi and Magungo. 



[June, 1699. 4 



