W. 11. OGlLYlE-URAXr— AVES. 327 



Iris dark hazel ; bill and feet black. 



This bird, a nearly adult male, belongs to the typical South^African form, which it 

 resembles in every particular, including the length of the bill. Cinnyris suahelicus 

 Reichenow should be referred to the synonymy of C. mariquensis, and not to that of 

 C. osiris as quoted by Captain Shelley [B. Afr. ii. p. 53 (1900)]. 



[The Southern Bifasciated Sun-bird was met with only between Entebbe and 

 Ruwenzori. — B. B. W.~] 



Cinnyris microrhynciics Shelley. 



Cinnyris microrhynchus Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 55 (1900). 



Cinnyris mariquensis microrhynchus Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 481 (1005). 



a. 6 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3100 ft., 28th April. [No. 3290. R. B. IV.] 



b-f. <?¥.-„ „ „ 9th-3lstMay. [Nos. 402. R. E. R ; 1527, 



1565, 1566. 1). C. ; 3405. B. B. W.] 



g. J . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 16th June. [No. 3496. B. B. W.] 



Adult male and female. Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



The six male examples from S.E. Ruwenzori included in the present collection are 

 somewhat puzzling, and, though I think they must all belong to one species, they 

 vary one from another considerably in the colour of their plumage. First, as regards 

 the colour of the under tail-coverts: in three specimens (Nos. 402, 1566, 3496) these 

 parts are black with a dull purplish gloss ; in one (No. 1565) they are brilliant metallic 

 purplish-blue margined with bluish-green; while in the remaining two (Nos. 1527, 

 3290) they are intermediate in colour, being black tipped with greenish-blue. In the 

 bird with the brilliant under tail-coverts the metallic purplish-blue bands across most 

 of the feathers of the maroon-red breast-band are more strongly developed, and many 

 of the feathers on the breast are tipped with purplish-blue. This is apparently an old 

 male in the fullest plumage. One specimen (No. 1527) has the breast-band much 

 brighter, some of the feathers being dull vermilion, and has the wing-measurement 

 2 - 2 inches and that of the tail T4. In the remaining five specimens the wing varies 

 from 2-25 to 2-4 and the tail from 1*65 to 1*75, the difference in the length of the 

 latter being considerable. 



In Mr. Jackson's collection I find two specimens from Mount Maungu and the 

 River Voi, both in the Teita district. One of these, from the Voi River, nearly 

 resembles specimen No. 1527 from S.E. Ruwenzori in possessing a brighter breast-band 

 and in having the measurements of the wing and tail equally small, 2T and T4 inches 

 respectively ; the second bird, from Mount Maungu, has the maroon breast-band 

 washed with purple, the under tail-coverts black tipped with greenish-blue, the wing- 

 measurement 2'25 and that of the tail T6. 



It must be added that the bird from the Voi River, killed in December, is in verv 



