112 CHALCOMITRA ADELBERTI. 



Nectarinia st ranger i, Jard., named after the doctor who accom- 

 panied the party. This Sunbird ranges throughout Camaroons, 

 for specimens have been collected by Crossley in the moun- 

 tains and the Victoria forest, by Dr. Preuss at Buea, and by 

 Dr. Reichenow near the coast. 



In Gaboon it is apparently equally abundant, and according 

 to Verreaux frequents the forests. Du Chaillu collected speci- 

 mens at the Muni, Moon da and Camma rivers, and Marche in 

 the Ogowe district. 



On the Loango coast Petit met with the species at 

 Landana, and from Malimba, some ten miles further south, 

 Perrein procured the type of the species and also the type of 

 0. rubescens, which latter was formerly in the Paris Museum, 

 but has been lost, and it is now impossible, from the descrip- 

 tion alone, to determine the species for which the name was 

 intended. On the Congo river specimens have been collected 

 by Bohudorff at Leopoldsville, and by Jameson at Yambuya. 



In Angola Monteiro procured this Sunbird at Bembe, the 

 furthest southern range known for the species, and in the 

 Paris Museum there is another specimen from Angola. 



In Central Africa specimens have been collected in the 

 Nyam-nyam country, at Semmioby Bohndorff, and by Emin at 

 Msukali, Uvambo-lager, Bukoba and Njonjo. Mr. Neumann 

 likewise met with this species at Bukoba on June 8th. 



Chalcomitra adelberti. 



Chalcomitra adelberti (Gerv.), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 57 (1896). 



Cinnyris adelberti, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 281, pi. 88 (1878) ; Gadow, 

 Cat. B. M. ix. p. 99 (1884) ; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1886, 

 p. 251 ; 1889, p. 118 Liberia ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1897, p. 46 Togoland. 



Adult Male. Above brownish black ; crown and rnustachial-band 

 metallic green ; chin and upper throat black ; lower throat buff margined 



