CHALCOMITRA ANGOLENSIS. Ill 



colours, and later the rich colours simply fade and get worn 

 away, causing specimens to show great variation in colour. 

 One of these adult males in faded plumage, from Gaboon, is 

 the type of Ginnyris scapulatus, Rochebrune. 



The name " Carmelite " for this bird was first used by 

 Vieillot as its French name in 1802, and Latham twenty years 

 later called it the " Carmelite Creeper," and in 1854 Reichen- 

 bach made it the type of his genus Garmelita. 



Chalcomitra angolensis. 



Chalcomitra angolensis (Less.), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 56 (1896). 

 Cinnyris angolensis, Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. S. Z. France, 1876, p. 304 



Loango ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 279, pi. 87 (1879) ; Gadow, Cat. B. 



M. ix. p. 98 (1884) ; Sharpe, Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool. xvii. p. 428 



(1884) Semmio; Beichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 306 Leopoldsville ; 1890, 



p. 126 Camaroons ; Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 162 Yambuya ; Beichen. 



J. f. O. 1892, pp. 55, 189 Camaroons ; id. Vog. Deutsch O. Afr. p. 



210 Buhoba; Neum. J. f. O. 1898, p. 237 Bukoba. 

 Nectarinia angolensis, Hartl. Abhandl. Brem. 1891, p. 28 Msukali, 



Uvambo-Lager. 



Adult Male. Dark brown with a slight bronzy gloss ; forehead, feathers 

 in front of the eyes and chin black ; front half of the crown and the throat 

 metallic green, edged on the occiput and breast with metallic violet. Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-6, tail 1-7, tarsus 06. W. Africa 

 (McLeannan). 



Adult Female. Above brown, with a partial buff eyebrow ; outer tail- 

 feathers with narrow pale ends. Beneath buff, mottled on the throat and 

 sides of the breast with the brown centres of the feathers. Total length 

 4-2 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-4, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-6. 



The Green -throated Brown Sunbird ranges from Camaroons 

 and Fernando Po into Angola, eastward to the shores of 

 Victoria Nyanza and into the Upper White Nile district. A 

 specimen of this species obtained on Fernaudo Po during 

 the Allen and Thomson expedition to that island is the type of 



