CINNYRIS PREUSSI. 81 



Adult Male. Similar to C. chalybeus, but with the abdomen uniform 

 dark yellowish brown ; blue collar and upper tail-coverts of a violet shade ; 

 quills with dark yellow on the outer edges, as in G. preussi ; under wing- 

 coverts mostly white. Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 0'85, wing 2-2, tail 

 1-8, tarsus 075. Kombe on Masuku range, Nyasaland, July (A. Whyte). 



Fiilleborn's Double-collared Sunbird inhabits the Nyasa 

 Lake district. 



At Korabi on the Maruku Range Mr. Alexander "Whyte 

 procured a specimen in full plumage at an elevation of 7,000 

 feet in July, and Dr. F. Fiilleborn discovered the type at 

 Kalinga in the southern part of German East Africa. 



Cinnyris preussi. 



Cinneris preusbi, Reichen. J. f. 0. 1892, p. 190 Camaroons ; Sjostedt, Mitt. 



d. Schutzg. viii. 1895, p. 33 ; id. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1895, p. 102 ; 



Eeichen. J. f. O. 1896, pp. 38, 64 ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 44 (1896). 

 Cinnyris chalybeus (nee Linn.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 125 Camaroons. 



Adult Male. Very similar to C. fuelleborni, but with the dark brown 

 breast only slightly tinted with yellow on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts, under wing-coverts dusky ash with no white. Total length 4-2 

 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-25, tail 165, tarsus 075. Camaroons Sept. 

 (H. H. Johnston). 



Adult Female. Very similar to the hen of C. mediocris. Total length 

 4 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2, tail 1*7, tarsus 0-65. 



The Camaroons Double-collared Sunbird is only known 

 to occur in Camaroons. 



The type was procured by Dr. Preuss at Buea in the 

 highlands ; Sir Harry Johnston collected two full plumaged 

 males and a female in the same district at 7,000 to 8,000 feet 

 in September. According to Mr. Sjostedt they have a fine 

 piping note which they pour forth from the top of a bush, and 

 are often to be met with in company with Elminia longieauda. 



[June, 1899. 



