158 ANTHOTHREPTES GABONICA. 



shade ; breast sulphur yellow with a broad baud down the chest and the 

 under tail-coverts scarlet. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-4, 

 tail 1-6, tarsus 0-7. Caconda, 7. 77 (Anchieta). 

 Adult Female. Exactly like the male. 



Anchieta's Red and Yellow-breasted Sunbird ranges from 

 Benguela to Lake Nyasa. 



This striking species has been named by Prof. Barboza du 

 Bocage after the energetic naturalist, the late Mr. Anchieta, 

 who discovered this Sunbird at Caconda, where, he informs us, 

 it is common and known to the natives as " Xinjonjo," a name 

 I also find on a label of Ginnyris oustaleti. 



This is one of the few species of Sunbirds in which the 

 sexes are identical in plumage, and in this instance both are 

 adorned with metallic colours. 



The most eastern known range for the species is Fort Hill, 

 situated on the Songwe river which flows into the northern 

 end of Lake Nyasa. Here a full plumaged specimen was shot 

 by the hunters who accompanied the Commission for the 

 Delimitation of the Anglo-German Boundary between the 

 Nyasa and Tanjanyika lakes, and brought to England by 

 Lieut.-Col. W. H. Manning. In recording this specimen in the 

 " Ibis," I mentioned the supposed occurrence of the species 

 in Mashonaland by Mr. Guy Marshall. That gentleman has 

 kindly forwarded to me two of these specimens, which I find 

 are young males of Ghalcomitra gutturalis, with the lower 

 throat red and a fair amount of yellowish buff on the breast 

 and no metallic colours. 



Anthothreptes gabonica. 



Anthothreptes gabonica (Hartl.), Reichen. J. f. 0. 1894, p. 42 Camaroons ; 

 Sjostedt, Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1895, p. 104 Camaroons; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 82 (1896). 



