CINNYRIS LUDOVrCENSIS. 7fi 



inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 07. Caconda, 1878 (Anchieta). 

 Adult Female. Similar in plumage to G. afer. 



The BengueJa Double-collared Sunbird inhabits Benguela 

 and North Zainbesia. 



Anchieta discovered the type of the species at Biballa, 

 where, he informs us, it is called by the natives " Kanjoi," 

 and at Caconda he obtained the type of Nectarinia intermedia. 

 This species has been well figured from a very finely plumaged 

 specimen and renamed G. erikssoni by my friend Mr. Trimen, 

 who writes : " This handsome species was found by Mr. 

 Eriksson to be not uncommon in the wooded ravines of the 

 mountain-range called Sheila (' Serra de Chella ' of Keith 

 Johnston's Library Map of Africa), rather over a hundred 

 miles inland from the Port of Mossamedes at Little Fish Bay. 

 He describes its habits to be precisely those of G. chalybeus 

 and G. afer, both of which he had observed some years ago 

 at Knysna in the Cape Colony, but which neither he nor the 

 late Mr. Andersson ever met with to the north of the Orange 

 river. Since seeing Mr. Eriksson's bird here described, it has 

 occurred to me that the specimens of G. afer stated by Captain 

 Shelley and Mr. Sharpe to be recorded by Prof. Barboza du 

 Bocage from Biballa may possibly prove to be G. erikssoni, as 

 the latter locality is only a few miles distant from the Sheila 

 range." 



Mr. Trimen is certainly right in his last surmise, and this 

 species must stand as G. ludovicensis. 



In the British Museum there is a typical specimen of 

 Nectarinia intermedia, Bocage, from Caconda, which also be- 

 longs to this species. It is not in full plumage, and its scarlet 

 breast-band is not fully developed, but it may be distinguished 

 from G. chalybeus by the scarlet of the breast-band being paler, 

 of the same shade as in G. afer, and the narrow metallic belt 

 above being bluer ; but its strongest specific character lies in 

 the small size of the bill in proportion to the wing. 



