66 C1NNYRIS FALKENSTEINI. 



the leaves of a bush and a creeping plant; both were partly 

 interwoven in the structure, which consisted of scraps of bark 

 and fibre, fine grass and down, lined inside with hair and wool. 

 The nest was of an oval form with an entrance near the top, 

 and was partially hidden by a large leaf. The birds were 

 engaged eight clays in constructing this edifice. 



Cinnyris falkensteini. (Pi. 3, fig. l.) 



Cinnyns falkensteini, Fisch. and Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1884, p. 56 Masai ; 



Pisch. Zeitschr, 1884, p. 339 ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 139 Naiwasha ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 591 Sotik ; Eeichen, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 161 ; id. 



Vog. Deutsch. S. Afr. p. 212 (1893) Karagive, Mpapwa, Taboro ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 16 ; 1894, p. 13 ; 1896, pp. 180, 233 ; 1897, 



p. 524 Nyasa ; id. B. Afr. I. No. 36 (1896) ; Hinde, Ibis, 1898, 



p. 580 Machako's ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1898, pp. 233, 234, 237. 

 Nectarinia affinis (nee Hupp.) Bouv. Bull. S. Z. Prance, 1877, p. 450 



Uganda; Hartl. Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Brem. 1891, p. 29 Baguera. 

 Cinnyris affinis, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 227 Teita; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, 



p. 228 ; 1889, p. 365, Kilimanjaro; Emin, J. f. 0. 1890, p. 60. 



Adult male. Similar to C. venustus, but differs in having a shade of blue 

 over the upper parts generally, and the throat more uniform violet and not 

 divided in the middle by the green of the sides of the neck ; breast deep 

 yellow tinged with orange; under wing-covert brown. Total length 3-8 

 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-1, tail 1-65, tarsus 065. 



Falkenstein's Buff-breasted Sunbird ranges from the 

 Zambesi to about 1° N. lat. in Central and East Africa. 



Mr. Alexander Whyte has collected specimens in Nyasaland 

 in June, July, August and September at Zomba, the Nyika 

 Plateau and Kombi between 6,000 and 7,000 feet, one of 

 which is a nestling procured in June. 



In German East Africa specimens have been procured by 

 Emin at Taboro in the Uniamwesi country, at Mpapwa, 

 Karagwe, and Baguera. 



On Kilimanjaro Sir Harry Johnston met with it at 4,000 



