CINNYRIS REICHENOWI. 



Cinnyris reichenowi. 



Cinnyris reichenowi, Sharps, Ibis, 1891, pp. 444, 593, pi. 12, fig. 1 



Sotik; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 45 (1896); Hartert in Angorge's 



" Under Afr. Sun," App. p. 350 Uganda. 

 Nectarinia erickssoni (nee Trim.), Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem., 



1891, p. 28 Baguera. 

 Cinnyris ansorgii, Hartert in Ansorge's " Under the African Sun," App. 



p. 350, pi. 2, fig. 1, ManiuTta 



Adult Male. Similar to C. preussi, but smaller and slightly bluer above 

 and with scarcely any trace of yellow on the wings. Total length 4-4 

 inches, culmen 0-63, wing 2-1, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-65. Sotik, Oct. (Jackson). 



The blue shade on the upper parts, and the shade of red of the breast- 

 band are not very constant characters, but the short bill and violet blue 

 colouring of the collar and upper tail-coverts readily distinguishes the 

 species. 



Reichenow's Double -collared Sunbird inhabits the Victoria 

 Nyanza district. 



The type of the species was discovered by Mr. Jackson at 

 Sotik, near the north-east end of Victoria Nyanza. He has, 

 further, procured at Nandi, at an elevation of 6,500 feet, an 

 adult male with a rather pale breast-band, and a male in moult 

 in May, and in the same locality a female, on July 8, 1898. 

 Six days later he obtained an adult male in the ravine of Mau. 

 All these specimens, as well as the type of G. ansorgii, I have 

 carefully examined and consider to belong to one species. 

 Of the latter Mr. Hartert writes : " An adult male, shot at 

 Mandi Station in the Uganda Protectorate on March 16, 1898, 

 differs from G. reichenowi, Sharpe, in the great extension of the 

 somewhat deeper red colour of the breast, which occupies an 

 area of about 23 mm. in length, while in G. reichenowi it extends 

 for about 17 mm., tarsus 20 mm., culmen (from end of feathers 

 of forehead) 18"3mm., against 20 mm. in G. reichenowi. The 

 belly and abdomen seem to be a little darker than in 



