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B. M. ix. p. 94 (1884) ; Sharpe, Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool. xvii. p. 428 



(1884) Nyam-nyam; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 38, Tingasi ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1891, p. 592 Kikuyu, Busoga; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 55, 



Bukoba, Sesse Is. ; id. Vog. Deutseh 0. Afr. p. 210 (1894) ; Neum. 



J. f. O. 1898, pp. 233, 234 Victoria Nyanza ; Hartert in Ansorge's 



" Under Afr. Sun " App. p. 351 (1899) Unyoro. 

 Nectarinia acik, Pelz. Verb. Wien. xxxi., pp. 143, 609 (1881) ; Hartl. 



Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. 1881, p. 108 ; 1882, p. 206 ; 1891, p. 30 



Upper White Nile. 

 Cinnyris senegalensis lamperti, Reichen. J. f. O. 1897, p. 196 Kilimanjaro ; 



Hartert in Ansorge's "Under Afr. Sun" App. p. 351 (1899) Mtoto 



Ndei. 



Adult Male. Similar to C. senegalensis ; bat differs in the darker brown 

 colouring of the wings and tail, in the green mustachial-baud being much 



narrower and in the bluer shade of the metallic bars on the scarlet feathers. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-6, tail 2, tarsus - 65. N. E. Afr. 

 (Autinori, in Brit. Mus.). 



Adult female and males in moult are similar to those of G. senegalensis. 



The Acik Scarlet-chested Sunbird ranges over the Victoria 

 Nyanza, Upper White Nile and Shoa districts, between about 

 6' S. lat. and 10' N. lat., and from 25° to 40° B. long. 



This species, as I understand it, varies in size to the same 

 extent as G. gutturalis, thus : total length 5*0 to 5*7 inches, 

 culmen 0"85 to l'l, wing 2"6 to o"0, tail l - 7 to 2*1, tarsus 

 0"65 to 0*7. The specific characters are : entire absence of 

 metallic colours on the wing-coverts, which allies it to G. 

 senegalensis only, from which latter species it may be always 

 distinguished by the much narrower metallic green mustachial- 

 band, and perhaps most readily by the darker colour of the 

 wings and tail. The metallic bars on the scarlet feathers of 

 the crop are less green, but vary in certain lights from steel 

 blue to bluish green. 



The most southern known range for the species is Moshi 

 on the Kilimanjaro mountain, where Mr. Widemann procured 

 a rather large pale specimen, the type of Cinnyris senegalensis 

 lamperti, Reichen., which is described as similar in plumage to 



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