Birds of Fernando Po. 343 



Elaocerthia obscura Reichenb. Handb. Scansoriae, p. 293, 

 pi. lxxviii. figs. 3935-36 (1853: Fernando Po). 



Adelinus obscurus Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 88 (1879 : 

 Fernando Po). 



Cinnyris obscura Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. M. ix. p. 77 (1881: 

 Fernando Po); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. (2) iv. p. 7 (1895 : Fer- 

 nando Po) ; id. op. cit. (2) vii. p. 32 (1903). 



Cyanomitra obscura Shelley, B. Afr. i. no. G3 (1896), ii. 

 p. 125 (1900). 



Cinnyris obscurus Salvad. Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, iii. p. 104. 



Abundant on the low lands, where it feeds on the flowers 

 of the paw-paw tree [Papaya carica). Breeds in November. 

 We obtained a large series. 



6. Cyanomitra cyanoljema (Jard.). 



Nectarinia cyanolcemus Jard. & Fraser, Contr. Orn. 1851, 

 p. 154 (Clarence, Fernando Po) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 51 

 (1857 : Fernando Po) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 108. no. 1318 

 (1869: Fernando Po). 



Anthodiata cyanolcema Reichenb. Handb. Scansoriaj, p. 291 

 (1853: Fernando Po). 



Cyanomitra cyanolcema Shelley, B. Afr. i. no. GG (1896), 

 ii. p. 130 (1900); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. (2) vii. p. 32 (1903: 

 Fernando Po). 



Cinnyris cyanolcemus Salvad. Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, iii. 

 p. 105. 



Ad. $ . Basupu, Oct. 30, 1902. Rare. 



This specimen has the bill slightly shorter than Fraser's 

 type, which is said to have come from Fernando Po. The 

 metallic parts are greener, with a blue rather than a lilac 

 shade, and the general coloration of the upper parts more of 

 a dusky than a chocolate-shaded brown. 



7. Cyanomitra poensis Alex. 



Cinnyris chloronatus Allen & Thorns, (nee Swains.) Narr. 

 Exped. Niger, ii. p. 221 (1848 : Fernando Po). 



Nectarinia cyunocephala, part. Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 49 



(1857). 



