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Tiio only other example eollected by Doctor A])l)ott at the same 

 ahitudc is a female, in which the forehead is similar to the remainder 

 of tl)e upper surface — a 3^ellowish g-reen with scarcely a trace of olive — 

 and tlie yellow of the inferior surface is no lighter than usual. In one 

 s[)ecimen the chin and two or three feathers of the throat are black — 

 apparently a tendenc}' toward melanism. An immature female is 

 duller above than the adult, and paler, conspicuously less 3H^llowish 

 below, but otherwise is apparently not different. Male and female 

 are seemingly just alike in color. 



Family NECTARINTID.E. 



ANTHREPTES ORIENTALIS Hartlaub. 



Anthreplc-'^ oriental^ Hartlach, Jourii. f. Ornith, 1880, p. 213 (Lado, Ui:)pc'r 

 White Nile, British Equatorial Africa). 



One adult male, taken August 30, 18S8, on the Useri River, near 

 Mount Kilimanjaro. 



It is quite pro))able that AntJi.rejjtes or'wntalh may prove to be but 

 a sul)species of A))thr</j>f<s Jonguenuwii^ for though we have no series 

 of either species, the variations noted by Captain Shelley" point 

 signiticantly in this direction. 



ANTHREPTES COLLARIS ZAMBESIANUS (Sharpe). 



Anihodxicia zambcsiana iSnARPE, Layani's Birds S. Afr., 1876, p. 321 (Shupanga, 

 Zaml)esi River near mouth of Shire River, Portuguese East Africa). 



Ten specimens, probal)ly all from Taveta, though several have no 

 locality indicated on the label. 



Taking these specin)ens as a basis for comparison, Artt/i/'eptes c. zam- 

 JeivV/;^ //.s- is a perfectly good race. It differs ivoni A))fJirepfes collar!.^ 

 eoUaris as does ^4. c. /typodHus — in the golden olive instead of metallic 

 green edgings of the secondaries, greater and primary coverts;'' and 

 still further in its larger size and nuich paler posterior lower parts. 

 From A/)f7n'ej)tes collar's /njjHxlUus, with which of course it is most 

 nearl}' allied, it may readih' be distinguished by the decidedly paler 

 yellow of the under surface; l)y the rather lighter shade of the golden 

 olive quill margins; and \)y somewhat larger size. 



Among the adult males there is quite a noticeable variation in the 

 color above, some specimens showing nuich more golden green than 

 others. The adult females are not uniformly yellow below, but are 

 shaded anteriorl}" with a considerable admixture of gra3'ish, this coin- 

 cident in extent with the metallic throat colors of the adult male. An 

 immature male is similar. 



"Birds of Africa, II, 1900, p. 148. 



'^ In stating this distinction on a ]>revious occasion (Proc. H. s. Nat. .AIus., XXII, 

 1899, p. 38) I inadvertently transposed tiie terms "golden olive" and "metallic 

 green," 



