132 CYANOMITRA DUSSUMIERI. 



at Manyango and Leopoldsville. In Angola, at Bembe, Mr. 

 Monteiro obtained an adult male, and further inland Hamilton 

 found the species in the Kasongo country, but it is not known 

 to range further south. 



The full range of this species is very doubtful, for in one 

 of Mr. Jackson's recent collections there is a female labelled 

 " Buganda, 26. 11. 94," which is the first record of the 

 species occurring in East Africa. 



Cyanomitra dussumieri. 



Cyanomitra dussumieri (Hartl.), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 67 (1896). 

 Cinnyris dussumieri, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 293, pi. 93 (1877) ; Gadow, 



Cat. B. M. ix., p. 79 (1884) ; Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1895, 



p. 514 Seychelles. 



Adult Male. Above, dark browu, the feathers edged with olive ; tail 

 tipped with white, broadest towards the outer feathers. Beneath, olive 

 shaded ashy brown, with the entire throat deep metallic bottle green, 

 and orange red and yellow pectoral-tufts. Total length 4'6 inches, culmen 

 09, wing 2'4, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7. Seychelles (F. Newton). 



Adult Female. Only differs from the male in the throat being of the 

 same colour as the breast, and in having no bright pectoral-tufts. 



Male in moult. Like the female, or with the throat metallic, but with 

 no pectoral-tufts. 



The Seychelles Blue-throated Sunbird is confined to the 

 Seychelles Archipelago in the Indian Ocean about 800 miles 

 from the African coast. 



Mr. F. Newton writes : " The ' Colibri ' (Nectarinia dus- 

 sumieri) I found to be very common ; I saw it at Mahe, 

 Praslin, Ladigue, Felicite, Marianne, and Silhouette. When I 

 first arrived, the males I shot did not show any yellow under 

 the wing ; but at Marianne on February 12th, I obtained two 

 males which had the bright flame-coloured axillary-tufts fully 

 developed. At first I thought these were of a different species; 



