ANTHOTHREPTES ANCHIETJE. 157 



Immature. Above, olive with no trace of metallic colours ; sides of head 

 olive like the back with scarcely any trace of yellow ; beneath, nearly 

 uniform yellowish buff ; bill dark brown with a large basal portion of the 

 under mandible pale. Fernando Po (Fraser). 



This latter specimen is very like the adult female of Cinnyris chloropygius, 

 from which it chiefly differs in its slightly stouter, shorter and straighter 

 bill, its stouter tarsi and feet, and in the smaller and more pointed bastard 

 primary. 



The Grey-chin Collared-Sunbircl ranges from the Niger 

 district and Fernando Po into Angola, and eastward to Tingasi, 

 about 3° N. lat., 27° 40' E. long. 



Fraser met with the species during his journey from 

 Dahomey to Old Calabar, and procured the type at Fernando 

 Po. In Camaroons Mr. Zenker obtained a specimen in 

 December and Dr. Preuss one at Buea in September. About a 

 thousand miles to the east Erain found this Sunbird at Tingasi. 

 It appears to be more abundant further south, for it has been 

 recorded in Du Chaillu's collections from the Moonda, Camma 

 and Ogowe rivers, and in Marche's from the Lambarene iu 

 the Ogowe province. 



Along the course of the Congo it has been met with by 

 Bohndoff at Leopoldsville and by Jameson at Yambuya. In 

 the British Museum there is one of Monteiro's specimens from 

 Angola, which is the most southern known locality for the 

 species. 



Anthothreptes anchietse. 



Anthothreptes anchietse (Bocage), Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix., p. 115 (1884) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 832 (1881) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 



No. 81 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1899, p. 365 Tanganyika plateau. 

 Anthreptes anchietse, Shelley, Mon. Nect., p. 329, pi. 106 (1879) ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 545 (1881) Caconda. 



Adult Male. Upper surface dusky brown as well as the sides of the 

 head ; front of the crown and the throat metallic steel blue with a greenish 



