CINNYRIS MAIUQUENSIS. 51 



This species is nearly allied to G. bifasciatus in size and 

 measurements, but differs in having the bastard primary 

 smaller and more pointed, in which character it resembles 

 G. mariquensis, and is intermediate between these two species 

 in the golden shade being confined to the back of the head, 

 the neck and mantle. 



The most marked specific characters for G. shelleyi are : 

 the sealing-wax scarlet pectoral-baud which is similar to that 

 of G. erythroeerius, and the blackish brown breast which 

 resembles that of G. bouvieri. 



Cinnyris mariquensis. 



Cinnyris mariquensis, Smith; Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 211, pi. 65 (1876) ; 



Sharpe in Oates' Matabeleland, p. 310 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 256 Bamangwato ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 44, pt. A. (1884) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1884, p. 226, 1886, p. 286, Transvaal ; Fleck, J. f. O. 



1894, pp. 346, 362, 412 S. TV. Africa ; Shelley, B. Air. I. No. 25 



(1896) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 507 Zululand. 

 Nectarinia bifasciata (nee Shaw) Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 374 Matabele. 



Adult male. Entire head, neck, back and lesser wing-coverts metallic 

 green, with a strong coppery gloss ; wings and tail black. At the base of 

 the metallic green throat is a narrow steel blue collar followed by a broad 

 deep red pectoral-band, the feathers of which are partially edged with steel 

 blue or green ; remainder of the under parts black. Total length 51 inches, 

 culmen 0-85, wing 2-7, tail 2-1, tarsus 0'7. Bamangwato, 23. 11. 73 (T. E. 

 Buckley). 



Adult female. Above ashy brown ; tail with white tips to the outer 

 feathers ; a whitish eyebrow. Beneath whitish, washed with pale yellow 

 down the centre of the breast and with large triangular dusky centres to the 

 feathers of the lower throat, front of chest and under tail-coverts. Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen p 8, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 0'7. Bamangwato, 

 23. 11. 73 (T. E. Buckley). 



The Southern Bifasciated Sunbird is confined to South 

 Africa, south of the Cunene and Zambesi rivers, and has 

 not been recorded from south of 29° S. lat. According to 

 Andersson : " This species is very common in Ondonga, and 



