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has it been recorded from our British possessions of the Gold 

 Coast, yet in Togoland, our German neighbours, have collected 

 specimens there in .April, May and July. From the Niger 

 district it has not been procured since Allen and Thomson's 

 time, when the species was obtained at Abor, and from 

 Camaroons, Gaboon and Congo it has not yet been recorded 

 at all. 



In Benguela, however, Anchieta has found the species as far 

 south as Caconda, where it is probably not rare, for Prof. 

 Barboza du Bocage gave me a fine full plumaged male out of 

 his duplicates from that locality, which specimen is now in the 

 British Museum, along with five full plumaged males and two 

 females of this species collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte and 

 Lieut.-Col. Manning at Zomba in the Shire highlands in 

 January, February, June, July and September, so it is 

 evidently a resident there and not a rare straggler. 



The range of this species eastward probably extends as far 

 as the watersheds of the Congo and Zambesi rivers, so not 

 having seen the specimens, I should refer those collected by 

 Bohm only at the Lufuku river to the west of Tanjanyika 

 to this species, and those procm*ed by him, Fischer and Emin 

 east of that line to A. orientalis, as the latter certainly replaces 

 A. longuemarii at Altoni near Zanzibar and in the Nile water- 

 shed. 



Close to the latter district Emin obtained in July an 

 immature male of A. longuemarii at Bongereh in Monbuttu, 

 and Bohndorff an adult and young male at Sassa in the 

 Nyam-nyam country in November, which specimens are now 

 in the British Museum. 



Anthothreptes orientalis. (Pi. 4, fig. 2.) 



Anthothreptes orientalis, Hartl., Fisch. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 339; id. 

 J. f. O. 1885, p. 138 Osegua, Maunti, Pare, Arusha, Wapoko?nola?id, 



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