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is only known to range from the Gaboon to the Cunene river. 

 Verreanx's type of N. jardinei came from the Gaboon, and 

 the real type of this species was collected by Perrein at 

 Malimbe. Falkenstein and Petit have since found it on the 

 Loango Coast and Captain Sperling on the Lower Congo. 



Monteiro collected specimens at Ambriz in March and 

 at Colombo, on the Quanza, in November, and writes : " Very 

 abundant about Benguela even in comparatively barren places, 

 where, I have observed, they eat little insects, particularly 

 small spiders." 



Mr. Anchieta procured it at Dombe, Benguela and Quis- 

 sange, and Mr. Van der Kellen in Mosamedes at Banana and 

 Ango-Ango, so that the Cunene river appears to be the 

 boundary between this species and its ally in South Africa. 



Cinnyris microrhynehus. 



Cinnyris microrhynehus, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 219, pi. 67 (1876) ; 

 Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 355 Dar-es- Salaam ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 1881, p. 125 Mombasa; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 570 Dar-es-Salaam, 

 Usambara ; 1882, p. 302 Bovttma B. ; Schal. J. f. 0. 1883, p. 360 

 Kakoma, Zanzibar ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 47 (1884) ; Fisch. 

 Zeitschr. 1884, p. 339 Pangani ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 139 ; Shelley, 

 P. Z. S. 1889, p. 365 Tcita ; Keichen. J. f. 0. 1889, p. 285 Usegua; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 593 Masai; Kuschel. J. f. 0. 1895, p. 347 

 (egg) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 28 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1897, p. 524 Nyasa. 



Nectarinia microrhyncha, Hartl. Abhandl. Bremen, 1891, p. 30 Usegua. 



Nectarinia jardinei (nee Verr.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 173 Mombasa; 

 Fisch. J. f. 0. 1878, p. 280. 



Cinnyris jardinei, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 227 Tcita; Fisch. and Beichen. 

 J. f. 0. 1879, 347 Malindi. 



Adult viale. Similar to C. mariauensis, but very much smaller. Bill 

 not so strongly arched, and with scarcely any copper gloss. Total length 

 4-2 inches, culmen 06, wing 2-1, tail l - 6, tarsus 0-55. Lamu (Kirk). 



Adult female. Similar to C. mariquensis but more olive above and 

 yellower beneath without the dusky mottling. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 06, wing 19, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-55. Lamu (Kirk). 



