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doubt refers to G. deminuta Cab., a small race of the former 

 species. Specimens have been collected by Emin at Tabora 

 and Bagamoyo; by Sir John Kirk on Zanzibar island and in 

 the Usambara country ; by Fischer at Mambrui, Arusha, 

 Tshara and Mombasa ; by Hildebrandt at Ndi, Kitui and on 

 Mombasa island. 



On Kilimanjaro both Sir Harry Johnston and Mr. Hunter 

 collected many specimens between 3,000 and 7,000 feet. Mr. 

 Jackson procured several on Manda island in May, and nests 

 from Merereni and writes : " Common, especially among the 

 mango trees at Tangani. The nest was found suspended on the 

 extreme end of a small branch of a mangrove bush, along the 

 edge of a creek in July 1866." He also obtained an adult 

 male, in March, at Machako's (1° 28' S. kit., 37° 7' B. long.), 

 and in the same latitude, at Witu on the coast, an adult male 

 in May. 



Chalcomitra fuliginosa. 



Chalcomitra fuliginosa (Shaw), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 55 (1896). 



Cinnyris fuliginosus, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 275, pi. 86 (1878) ; Nichol- 

 son, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 129 Abeokuta ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 95 

 (1884) ; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1885, p. 168 ; 1886, p. 251 ; 1888, 

 p. 72 ; 1889, p. 118 Liberia; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 125 Cama- 

 roons; Beiehen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 306 Leopoldsville ; 1890, p. 126 

 Camaroons. 



Nectarinia fuliginosa, Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c, p. 14 (1875) 

 Gaboon ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 25 Loango. 



Cinnyris scapulatus, Bochebrune, Bull. Soc. Phil. Paris, 1885, p. 89 

 Gaboon. 



Adult Male. Chocolate brown, palest on the head, neck and mantle ; 

 front half of crown steel blue shaded with violet ; upper tail-coverts and 

 throat metallic lilac ; pectoral-tufts pale yellow. Total length 5-4 inches, 

 culmen 095, wing 2-7, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-63. Chinchonxo, 22. 4. 76 (Petit). 



Adult Female. Very much paler than the male and with no metallic 

 colours, tail-feathers with narrow whitish ends ; throat dusky brown ; a 



