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natives used to bring us cages full of these charming little 

 birds, showing how abundant and confiding they must be. 



Although so plentiful in the wooded districts, some thirty 

 miles from the coast we did not find them among the bushes 

 which are scattered over the wide plains of Accra. 



Anthothreptes rectirostris. 



Anthothreptes rectirostris (Shaw), Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix., p. 119 (1884, 



nee $ ) Gambia, Ashantee, Wasa, Fantee, Volta B. ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. No. 79 (1896). 

 Authodiseta rectirostris, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 331, pi. 107, figs. 2, 3, 



(1876). 

 Anthreptes rectirostris, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. xlv. (1880) ; Biittik. Notes 



Leyd. Mus. 1886, p. 251; 1888, p. 73; 1889, p. 118 Liberia; 



Oberholser, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1899, p. 32 Liberia. 



Adult Male. Upper parts metallic golden green, also the least and 

 median wing-coverts ; lower back, upper tail-coverts and edges of quills 

 and tail-feathers olive yellow ; remainder of wings and tail dark brown ; 

 sides of head and neck and a broad collar covering the lower throat green 

 like the mantle ; a black patch in front of eye ; chin and upper throat 

 yellow ; an orange belt separates the green of the lower throat from the 

 ashy breast which is shaded with yellow on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; pectoral-tufts sulphur yellow ; under surface of wings brown, with 

 the coverts and inner margins of quills white. "Iris brown, bill and feet 

 black" (Biittikofer). Total length 4 inches, culmen - 5, wing 2-2, tail 1-4, 

 tarsus - 6. 



Adult Female. Probably similar to adult male in plumage. 



Immature. Above olive mottled with a few metallic green feathers ; 

 beneath pale yellow slightly tinted with olive ; a partial yellow eyebrow 

 and a few yellow feathers beneath the eye ; bill brown and pale towards 

 the base of lower mandible. 



The Yellow-chin Collared- Sunbird ranges from the Gambia 

 to the Volta river. 



The most northern locality I can assign to this Sunbird 

 is the Gambia, from whence Dr. R. B. Sharpe received a 

 specimen which is now in the British Museum. In Liberia 



