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Mount Chiradzulu in the Shire highlands. Bohm met with 

 the species in October at the Lualaba river, its most western 

 known ran°'e, and informs us that it is not a rare bird to the 

 west of Lake Tanjanyika. He also procured the species on 

 Zanzibar Island in May. Fischer collected specimens at Lindi 

 as well as at Zanzibar, which is the most northern known range 

 for the Dark Olive Sunbird. 



Cyanomitra obscura. 



Oyanomitra obscura (Jard.), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 63(1896). 



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

 Loango; Shelley, Hon. Nect. p. 291, pi. 92 (1879); Gadow, Cat. 

 B. H. is. p. 77 (1884) ; Buttik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1886, p. 251 ; 

 1888, p. 72; 1889, p. 118 Liberia,- Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 38 

 Tingasi ; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 162 Yambuya ; Buttik. Notes, Leyd 

 Mus. 1892, p. 22 Sulymah B. ; Sjostedt, Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1895, 

 p. 103 Camaroons; Beichen. J. f. 0. 1896, p. 38 Camaroons ; id. 

 J. f. 0. 1897, p. 46 Togoland; Oberholser, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1899, 

 p. 17 Cameroons. 



Adelinus obscurus, Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 88 (1879) Gaboon. 



Elseocerthia ragazzii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1888, p. 247 Shoa. 



Cyanomitra ragazzii, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 64 (1896). 



Cinnyris ragazzii, Jackson, Ibis, 1898, p. 137 Witn ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1899, 

 p. 636 Ntcbi. 



Adult Male. Above, olive ; sides of the head more ashy olive, with 

 small white centres to the feathers of the cheeks, ear-coverts and eyebrows; 

 feathers in front of the eye buff. Beneath, buffy white, shaded with olive on 

 the sides of the body and under tail-coverts. Bill brownish black fading 

 on the basal half of the lower mandible into buff or flesh colour. Total 

 length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 0-65. Prince's Is., 

 2. 1. 76 (Petit). 



Adult Female. Similar to the male but without the yellow pectoral- 

 tufts. Bonny, 23. 10. 75 (Petit). 



The Pale Olive Sunbird ranges from the Sulymah river near 



Sierra Leone into Angola, occurs on Fernando Po and Prince's 



Island, and crosses the continent to Witu near the coast, in 



about 3° 40 S. lat., and Shoa. 



