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a. 8. 40 miles W. of Entebbe, 3500 ft., 27th Nov. [No. 1013. D. C] 



d. 



h-g. s 2 ■ Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 20th-23rd July. [Nos. 1730, 1740, 



1746, 1748, 1750. I). C. ; 3-506. R. B. W.] 



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

 Dr. Reichenow recognizes three subspecies of this bird, viz. : — 



1. dnnyris chloropygius (Jard.), ranging from Senegambia to the Niger. 



2. C. c. luhderi Reichenow, ranging from Cameroon to Loango. 



3. C. c. orphogaster Reichenow, ranging from the Upper Nile, above Lado, south- 

 wards to the Lakes. 



With all the available material arranged geographically it is easy to recognize two 

 forms, viz. that found in Sierra Leone, with its conspicuously olive underparts, and 

 that inhabiting the Gold Coast, Niger, Cameroon, Fernando Po, and Gaboon, ranging 

 southwards to Loango, and eastwards along the Congo to the Aruwimi and Welle 

 Rivers, Tingasi, Semliki Valley, and Entebbe. I find it impossible to separate the 

 west coast birds (C. c. luhderi Reich.) from the specimens procured in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Lakes (C. c. orphogaster Reich.) ; for though some individuals from 

 Fantee, Cameroon, &c. have the breast and belly of a more olive and less brownieh 

 tint, the bulk of the specimens are indistinguishable from one another. 



The point which I wish to emphasize is that the type of C. chloropygius (Jard.) from 

 the Niger River belongs to the darker-breasted form and not to the olive-breasted bird 

 from Sierra Leone, as has been supposed by Dr. Reichenow and Dr. Hartert. The 

 Sierra Leone bird is therefore, so far as I can discover, without a name, and I propose 

 to call it 



Cinnyris kempi, sp. n. 



Cinnyris chloropygius lleich. (nee Jard.) Vog. Afr. iii. p. 486 (1905). 



Adult male. Differs from C. chloropygius (Jard.) in being rather smaller, wing 1*8 

 to 1*9 inch, and in having the lower breast and belly, as well as the flanks and under 

 tail-coverts, conspicuously olive. 



There is a female example of C. chloropygius (No. 1748), procured by Mr. Carruthers 

 in company Avith the adult male (No. 1746), which has the yellow chest and breast 

 obscurely streaked with dusky, and in this respect differs from most of the female 

 specimens in the British Museum which have been referred to C. chloropygius. 



[A single specimen of the Little Scarlet-collared Sun-bird was obtained near 

 Entebbe. It was not met with again until we reached Fort Beni in the Semliki 

 Valley, where it was numerous. It was also seen in some of the clearings in the 

 Eturi Forest between Fort Beni and Irumu. — R. B. W.~\ 



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