74 CINNYRIS LUDOVICENSIS. 



common bird in the Rustenburg district. Mr. Barratt collected 

 specimens at Lydenburg and Macamac, and Mr. T. E. Buckley 

 in Swaziland. There is a specimen in the British Museum 

 labelled "Zambesi (Meller) " ; it was formerly in Dr. R. B. 

 Sharpe's collection, and was purchased from a dealer, and 

 this evidence is not, I consider, sufficiently conclusive of its 

 occurrence to the north of the Limpopo river, and I may add 

 that in Bradshaw's collection there was no specimen of G. afer. 



Mr. Chapman is said to have brought down with him a 

 specimen from the Lake Ngami district, but he does not 

 mention the species himself, and if the specimen really came 

 from that country, it most probably belonged to the allied 

 form, G. ludovicensis. 



Mr. Atmore found G. afer breeding in October. The nests, 

 he writes, " Were well woven with the fibres of Asclepias, 

 grass-bents, snake skins, and all sorts of odd things, and then 

 filled up with feathers. My boys have taken three or four 

 nests each with but two eggs, and I believe that to be the 

 orthodox number." The eggs, according to Mr. Layard, " are 

 similar in colour (clouded greyish brown) and size to those of 

 the western species, C. chalybeus." 



Cinnyris ludovicensis. 



Cinnyris ludovicensis (Bocage), Sharpe ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 830 



(1884); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 40 (1896); id. Ibis, 1897, p. 524 



Nyasa. 

 Nectarinia ludovicensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, p. 41 ; id. Orn. 



Angola, p. 169 (1877) Biballa. 

 Nectarinia intermedia, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 236 ; 1881, p. 65 ; 



id. Orn. Angola, p. 544 (1881) Gaconda. 

 Cinnyris erikssoui, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 451, pi. 32, Mossamedes ; 



Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 38 (1884). 



Adult Male. Similar to C. afer, but differs in measurements and has no 

 violet sbade on the narrow steel blue pectoral- band. Total length 4' 7 



