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the cocoanufc palms in the vicinity of Cape Coast. It is a 

 woodland species, which may account for our not meeting with 

 it at Accra, but it is curious that we did not see these Sunbirds 

 during our short excursion into the forest of the Aguapim 

 mountains. In the neighbouring German territory of Togoland 

 Mr. Baumann collected two specimens in May at Podji, and in 

 the Niger district the species has been met with by Strange 

 and Mr. Hartert. 



Dr. Reichenow procured a good series of carefully sexed 

 specimens from Camaroons, and was the first to prove conclu- 

 sively that Gerthia cyanocephala, Shaw, is nothing but the male 

 of G. verticalis, Lath. 



In Gaboon Du Chaillu collected specimens on Cape Lopez 

 and near the Muni, Moonda and Camma rivers, and Marche at 

 Lope in the Ogowe district. From the Loango coast Perrein 

 procured the type of Gerthia cyanocephala, Shaw, and in the 

 same country Falkenstein collected specimens near Chinchonxo 

 and Petit at Landana. 



In the British Museum there are nine specimens from 

 Gaboon, two from Laudana and one of Monteiro's, an adult 

 male, from Bembe in Angola, which is the extreme southern 

 limit for the known range of the species, and Prof. Barboza du 

 Bocage remarks that G. verticalis has never been procured from 

 south of the Quanza river. 



Following the range of the species eastward we find 

 Dr. Reichenow records it as occurring in Bohndorff's collection 

 from Leopoldsville, and makes another of his specimens, an 

 adult male from the same locality, the type of his Ginnyris 

 bohndorffi, and refers another from Manyango, some miles 

 nearer to the coast, to the same form. To the north-east of 

 the Congo district Emin has collected specimens at Tingasi, 

 Tomaja, Foda, Baguera, Langomere, and Bukoba on the 



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