92 CHALCOMITRA ACIK. 



C. senegalensis, but larger: bill 1*12 inches, wing 30, tail 2 - 08, 

 and differs from G. gutturalis in having no metallic coloured 

 patch on the wing-coverts, the wings aDd tail paler, and the 

 scarlet on the lower throat and crop lighter, and with green 

 instead of blue metallic subterminal bars to these feathers. 



Mr. Hartert, in his list of the collection of birds made by 

 Mr. Ansorge, writes : — 



" Ginnyris acih. A good series from Masindi in Unyora. 



" Cinnyris senegalensis lamperti (see J. f. 0. 1897, p. 186). A 

 male from Mtoto Ndei in British East Africa belongs to this 

 form, described as a subspecies of senegalensis, from which it 

 differs in being much larger (wing 77 mm.) and more brownish 

 on the back." 



I have examined Mr. Jackson's fine series of specimens 

 from Machako's, Ntebi, Elgeyu, Bosoga and Kikuyu, and find 

 they only differ in being slightly larger than the typical 

 specimen I have described and those in the British Museum 

 from Nyam-nyatn and Shoa. Emin and Dr. Stuhlmann have 

 met with the species at Victoria Nyanza on the island of Sesse 

 and at Bukoba. The former explorer also collected specimens 

 at Langomeri, Redjaf, Magungo, Kiri, Mambero, Njangaba 

 and as far west as Tingasi, in which latter neighbourhood 

 Bohndorff procured specimens while in the Nyam - nyam 

 country at Dem Suleiman and at Dem Bakir (6° 30' N. lat., 

 27° E. long). 



Antinori, who discovered the type of G. acih in the Djur 

 country, believed that the species arrived there from the 

 Equator about the beginning of February, when he first saw 

 a few pairs, and migrated again towards the middle of April, 

 as he did not meet with it later than the 15th of that month. 

 He further tells us that the natives call it " Acik" and look 

 upon its arrival as a good omen, foretelling the approach of 

 the rainy season. 



