138 CYANOMITRA REICHENBACHI. 



p. 304 Loango ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 299, pi. 96 (1877) ; Gadow, 

 Cat. B. M. ix. p. 81 (1884) ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887, pp. 301, 306 

 Congo; 1890, p. 126 Camaroons ; Sjostedt, Sv. Vet. Ak. Hand, 

 p. 102 Camaroons. 



Nectarinia reicheubachi, Reichen. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 31 Camaroons. 



? Cinnyris oritis, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, pp. 190, 225 Camaroons. 



Adult Male. Above, olive-yellow ; head and entire throat metallic violet, 

 shaded with indigo bronze ; tail graduated, with pale ends to the feathers. 

 Breast pale ash colour with bright yellow pectoral-tufts ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts yellow. Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 065, wing 2-35, 

 tail 2-15, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 4-6 inches, 

 culmen 065, wing 2-2, tail 1*5, tarsus 07. Gaboon, 5. 1. 76 (Marche). 



Young Male. Similar to the adult but with no metallic colours ; head 

 and neck deep olive brown inclining almost to black on the chin ; remainder 

 of the under parts bright yellow, washed with olive on the side of the breast. 

 Landana (Petit). 



Reichenbach's Sunbird ranges over West Africa from the 

 Volta river to the Congo. 



At the river Volta, which waters the eastern portion 

 of the British Possession of the Gold Coast, two nearly 

 full pluinaged specimens, probably a pair, were collected by 

 my friend the late Governor TJssher, who writes : " They 

 frequented low shrubs near the river bank, and, I should 

 fancy, were tolerably plentiful. The habits of most of 

 these Sunbirds appear to be identical ; and their flight 

 and method of feeding offered nothing noteworthy to the 

 collector." In Camaroons, according to Dr. Reichenow, the 

 species is abundant, and he found from his own observations 

 that the female assumed metallic colours similar to that of the 

 male, and that in young birds the crown was olive like the 

 back, and the throat greenish yellow. Mr. Sjostedt procured a 

 specimen in August at Bibundi. 



From Gaboon Verreaux obtained the type of the species. 

 Marche met with this Sunbird at Lope in the Ogowe district, 

 and Du Chaillu at the Camma river. Further south Petit 



