84 CJNNYRIS CHLOROPYGIUS. 



shaded brown. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 1-9, tail 1'4, 

 tarsus 0-6. Abouri, 20. 2. 70 (T. E. Buckley). 



Adult Female. Above olive, as well as the cheeks and sides of the 

 head ; tail black with pale tips broadest on the outer feathers. Under 

 surface of body and a partial eyebrow pale yellow fading into white towards 

 the chin. Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 06, wing 1-75, tail 1-1, tarsus 055. 

 Abrobonko, 30. 1. 72 (Shelley). 



Tlie little Scarlet-collared Sunbird ranges throughout West 

 Africa from Senegal to Angola, and oyer Central Africa to the 

 eastern shores of Victoria Nyanza. 



Dr. Hartlaub records a specimen, in the Berlin Museum, 

 from Senegal ; Verreaux's collectors sent others from Casa- 

 manse. Mr. Biittikofer calls it the commonest Sunbird in 

 Liberia, and in the British Museum there is an adult male from 

 Cape Palmas. 



On the Cold Coast the species is abundant : Mr. Blissett 

 collected specimens at Elmina, the late Governor Ussher 

 in Fantee, in the neighbourhood of Cape Coast Castle and the 

 inland forest of Denkera. He also met with it further along 

 the coast at the Volta river and Lagos. 



Mr. T. E. Buckley and myself found these birds at 

 Abrobonko, near Cape Coast Castle, and at Abouri in the 

 Aguapim mountains, but never saw them in the open country 

 round Accra. In Togoland Herr Baumann procured a specimen 

 at Leglebi in July. 



The type of the species is in the British Museum ; it is an 

 adult male from the Niger. Marche and De Compiegne 

 collected specimens at Old Calabar and on the Island of 

 Fernando Po, where, according to Fraser, these Sunbirds are 

 to be met with in flocks of from twenty to fifty individuals near 

 the houses, perched on the long grass and low shrubs, and 

 they have a short but sweet note. " A female procured 

 breeding ; the nest, made of grass, was pendent from the 

 branches of a small bush ; she alone was the architect, both 



