58 CINNYRIS LEUCOGASTER. 



bill ; wings dark brown, tail black. Chin dull black, remainder of the throat 

 golden green margined towards the chest by a narrow belt of steel blue, 

 followed by a rather broad one of metallic ruby violet mixed with deep 

 maroon red; remainder of the under parts dark brown, with bright yellow 

 and scarlet pectoral-tufts. Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1-35, tarsus 0-65. Landana, 3. 6. 76 (Petit). 



Adult female. Above, ashy brown slightly tinted with olive ; with a 

 partial buff eyebrow ; a few of the outer tail-feathers tipped with white ; 

 beneath, pale buff; lower throat and sides of chest with very indistinct 

 dusky central streaks to the feathers. Total length 4-15 inches, culmen 0'7, 

 wing 2, tail 1-35, tarsus 06. Landana, 31. 1. 76 (Petit). 



Bouvier's Sunbird is only known from the Loango coast, 

 which extends north from the mouth of the Congo ; here the 

 type was collected by Petit at Landana as well as a female 

 which I presume to belong to this species. The same collec- 

 tion also contained a female probably of this species from 

 Chinchonxo. 



It differs from the Bifasciated Sunbirds and approaches the 

 Palestine 0. osea in having flame-coloured axillary-tufts and 

 some steel blue colouring on the head, and differs from them 

 all excepting G. shelleyi in having the abdomen brown. 



Cinnyris leucogaster. 



Cinnyris leucogaster, Vieill. Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. xxxix. (1880) ; 



Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 40 (1884); Biittik. Notes, Leyd. Mus. 



1889, p. 71 Upper Cunene ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 31 (1896). 

 Cinnyris talatala, Smith, Kep. Exp. Centr. Afr. p. 53 (183G) ; Shelley, 



Mon. Nect. p. 229, pi. 71 (1876) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 



pp. 318, 832, pi. 7 (1876-84) ; Ayres, 1879, p. 294 Bustenburg ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 256, Bamangwato : Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 56 



Matabele, Transvaal; Eendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 171 Transvaal; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1897, p. 506 Zululand. 

 Nectarinia talatala, Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 375 Bamangwato ; Bocage, 



Oru. Angola, p. 172 (1877) Benguela ; Sousa, Journ. Lisb. 1887, p. 94 



Quissange. 



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

 shaded with steel blue on the forehead, upper tail-coverts and throat ; wings 

 brown ; tail black. Base of the throat edged with a narrow black collar ; 



