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Adult Female. Above, brown, the feathers broadly edged with olive 

 yellow ; outer tail-feathers with pale ends ; sides of head brown with a 

 white band above and below the eye. Beneath, white, the throat shaded 

 with pale brown, the chest faintly mottled with brown; abdomen, sides of 

 the body and under tail-coverts washed with olive yellow. Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2-55, tail 2'2, tarsus 0'7. Pantee (Aubin). 



The Blue-throated Brown Sunbird ranges from Sierra 

 Leone into Angola, the Island of Fernando Po and the Uganda 

 Protectorate to as far east as Buganda. 



Specimens have been collected at Sierra Leone by Marche, 

 along the banks of the Sulymah river by Demery, and at 

 Schieffelinsville in Liberia by Mr. Buttikofer, who remarks 

 that the first two specimens " differ somewhat from each 

 other, one having chin and throat with a greenish, the other 

 with an intense violet gloss." This variation in the shade of 

 colouring of the metallic gloss is by no means confined to this 

 species, and may be probably accounted for by the age and 

 amount of exposure of the metallic coloured feathers since the 

 last moult. 



On the Gold Coast, according to the late Governor Ussher, 

 it is rare, though occasionally found in the vicinity of Cape 

 Coast, and there is one of his specimens from Abrobonko in the 

 British Museum, and the pair I described were collected for 

 him by Aubin, probably in the forest of Denkera. Neither I 

 nor Mr. T. E. Buckley met with the species, nor do I find any 

 mention of it from Togoland or the Niger. 



The type of the species was discovered by Fraser on 

 Fernando Po, and the only record I find of it in Camaroons is 

 that Mr. Sjostedt shot a male in January out of a flock, which 

 he believed to be mostly young birds. In Gaboon these 

 Sunbirds appear to be more plentiful, for Du Chaillu collected 

 specimens at the Moonda and Camma rivers and Marche in 

 the Ogowe district. 



Along the Lower Congo, Bohndorff procured specimens 



