CHALCOMITRA AMETHYSTINA. 103 



Hunter's Scarlet-cliested Sunbird ranges from the Teita 

 country into Sornaliland. 



The types, a male and female in full plumage, were 

 discovered by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, in July, at the Useri river, 

 which rises from the north-east flank of the Kilimanjaro 

 mountain. 



Mr. Jackson has also procured the species in the Teita 

 country at the Voi river, and Mr. Ansorge at the Kinani and 

 Tsavo rivers. This Sunbird has not been, yet, recorded from 

 German East Africa, but ranges northward into Somaliland, 

 where Mr. Ruspoli has procured a specimen at Mandera in 

 the Golis mountains ; Mr. Elliot at Hullier, where he found 

 it not uncommon ; and Mr. Hawker shot the only specimen he 

 saw at Ujawaji in January. 



Chalcomitra amethystina. 



Chalcoinitra amethystina (Shaw), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 52 (1896). 



Cinnyris ainethystinus, Shelley, Mon. Neet. p. 269, pi. 84 (1878) ; Ayres, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 294 Transvaal ; Butler, Fielden and Beid, Zool. 1882, 

 p. 247 Natal; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 96 (1884); Ayres, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 226 Transvaal; Kuschel. J. f. 0. 1895, p. 346 (egg); 

 Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 171 Transvaal; Sbarpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 506 

 Zululand. 



Adult Male. Velvety black with a lilac bronze gloss, wings and tail of 

 a more coppery shade ; crown metallic green ; least series of wing-coverts 

 violet shaded steel blue ; upper tail-coverts and throat metallic lilac. Total 

 length 5'3 inches, culmen 115, wing 2-9, tail 2, tarsus 0-7. Pinetown, 15. 5. 75 

 (T. L. Ayres). 



Adult Female. Above ashy olive, wings and tail darker and browner, 

 with the outer feathers of the latter tipped with white ; eyebrows and under 

 parts buff, with the throat dusky black and the chest and under tail-coverts 

 mottled by the dark centres of the feathers. Total length 4-9 inches, 

 culmen PI, wing 2-6, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7. Pinetown, 2. 2. 75 (T. L. Ayres). 



Adult Male in moult and Young. Similar to adult female, but with the 

 throat jet black. Pinetown, 3. 5. 75 (T. L. Ayres). 



