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In Gaboon, Dn Chaillu met with them at the Camma river, 

 and Marche near the Ogowe. 



It ranges over the whole area of the Congo Free State, 

 having been found on the Loango Coast at Landana by 

 Falkenstein and Petit, at the mouth of the Congo by Captain 

 Sperling, at Manyango by Bohndorff, and by Jameson at 

 Yambuya on the Aruwhimi branch. Erain has procured 

 specimens at Tingasi, Foda, Lado in 5° N. lat. — its most northern 

 range known in this direction — and at Bukoba on Victoria 

 Nyanza. Southward specimens have been collected on the 

 Lualaba tributory of the Congo by Bohm, and in Angola by 

 Toulson at Loanda, the extreme southern known range for 

 the species in West Africa. 



In the Zambesi district these Sunbirds range further south, 

 for Mr. Boyd Alexander obtained, in the densely wooded 

 country near Chiramba on the right bank of the Zambesi, an 

 adult male, apparently breeding there, on July 30th. To the 

 north of this grand river Sir John Kirk collected specimens, 

 including the type of Anthodiceta zambesiana, Shelley, at 

 Shupanga, and writes : — " Found near Shupanga and Lena, 

 but not very common. Its nest has been seen suspended to 

 grass-stalks." Mr. Alexander Whyte obtained the species 

 at Zomba in July, and in the British Museum there is a 

 specimen from the Rovuma river. 



The late Dr. Bohm records these birds as being abundant 

 from Zanzibar to the Lualaba river. On his way inland from 

 the coast he collected specimens at Seke in Ugogo, at Gronda 

 near Taboro, and to the west of Lake Tanjanyika in the 

 Kasongo country at Likulwe, also at the Lufuku and Lualaba 

 rivers. He took a nest with two young ones on March 11th, 

 near Tanjanyika lake. 



Years ago, when I kept a collection, Sir John Kirk sent 

 me specimens of this species from Mamboyo, Dar-es- Salaam, 



