314 Mr. Boyd Alexander on the 



Cinnyris oritis Bocage (nee Reichb.), Jorn. Lisb. (2) iv. p. 8 

 (1895 : Pico Santa Isabel, Fernando Po). 



Cyanomitra poensis Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 38 

 (1903). 



Cinnyris poensis Salvad. Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, iii. p. 105. 



Adult male. Entire head, neck, and throat dark metallic 

 greenish blue ; remainder of upper parts greenish olive; quills 

 and tail dusky brown, edged on their outer webs with more 

 golden-olive feathers ; entire breast and abdomen olive-yellow ; 

 pectoral tufts pale sulphur-yellow ; axillaries yellow ; under 

 Aving-coverts and lining to quills silky white : iris reddish 

 brown ; bill black ; legs and feet greenish slate. 



Total length 48 inches, culmen 11, wing 245, tail 165, 

 tarsus 0-8. {Type. Bilelipi, 6000 feet, Nov. 27, 1902.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but duller and smaller, 

 and lacking the sulphur-yellow pectoral tufts. 



Total length 43 inches, culmen 1, wing 22, tail 13, tarsus 

 0-64. {Type. Bakaki, 4000 feet, Nov. 20, 1902.) 



Immature. Upper parts uniform dull greenish olive, with 

 no metallic colours. Chin, throat, and fore-neck dusky 

 brown ; remainder of under parts olive-yellow. 



We obtained a fine series of this species, which is widely 

 distributed over the highlands. 



Mr. Newton, the Portuguese collector, procured a male 

 specimen during his expedition in 1895 in the vicinity of the 

 Peak. 



8. Anthothreptes fraseri Jard. & Selby. 



Anthreptes fraseri Jard. & Selby, Illustr. Orn. (u. s.) pi. Iii. 

 (1843 : Fernando Po) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 14 (Fernando 

 Po) ; Shelley, Monogr. Nectar, p. 307, pi. xcix. (1879 : Fer- 

 nando Po). 



Elaocerthia fraseri Reichen. Handb. Scansorise, p. 292, 

 pi. 578. fig. 3934 (1853 : Fernando Po). 



Nectarinia fraseri, Mull. J. f. O. 1855, p. 16 (Fernando 

 Po); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 50 (1857: Fernando Po). 



Arachnother a fraseri Gray, Hand-1. B. p. 113. no. 1399 

 (1869: Fernando Po). 



