



284 NECTARINIIDJE CINNYRIS 



The two eggs are elongated in shape, the ground colour greyish, 

 but so thickly covered with mottlings and spots of brown and slate- 

 grey as to be almost invisible. They measure 0-72 x 0'52. 



161. Cinnyris ludovicensis. Northern Double-collared Sunbird. 



Cinnyris ludovicensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, p. 41 ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layards B. 8. Afr. p. 830 (1884) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 4 (1896). 

 Cinnyris erikssoni, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 451, pi. xxxii. 

 Cinnyris afra erikssoni, Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 38 (1884). 



Description. Adult male. Similar to the male of C. afer in 

 colour, but with the scarlet breast-band lighter in shade and con- 

 siderably wider, measuring an inch in width in adults. It is also 

 smaller in size, with a shorter bill. 



Iris dark brown ; bill, legs and feet black. 



Length 4-65; wing 2-50 ; tail 2-00; tarsus 0-62; culmen 0-66. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of C. afer in plumage, 

 but smaller. 



Length 4-50 ; wing 2-30 ; tail 1 65; tarsus 0-58; culmen 0-63. 



Distribution. North Damara Land and Mossamedes, ranging 

 eastward to North Nyasaland. 



Habits. Mr. Eriksson met with this Sunbird not uncommonly 

 " in the wooded ravines of the mountain range called Sheila, 

 rather over a hundred miles inland from the port of Mossamedes, 

 at Little Fish Bay. He describes its habits to be precisely those 

 of C. cJialybeus and C. afer, both of which he had observed some 

 years before at Knysna in the Cape Colony, but which neither he 

 nor the late Mr. Andersson ever met with to the north of the 

 Orange Eiver" (Trimen in " P. Z. S." 1882, p. 452). 



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 162. Cinnyris chalybeus, Lesser Double-collared Sunbird. 



Certhia chalybea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 186 (1766). 



Le sucrier a double collier, Levaill. Ois. d? Afr. vi, p. 178 (1808). 



Cinnyris chalybeus, Cuvier, Begn. Anim. i, p. 412 (1817) ; Gurney 



in Andersson's B. Damara Land, p. 69 (1872) ; Shelley, Monogr. 



CinnyridcB, p. 253, pi. 78 (1877) ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 4 (1896) ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 314, 831 (1884). 

 Cinnyris afra chalybea, Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 37 (1884). 

 Nectarinia chalybea, Burchell, Trav. 8. Afr. i, p. 221 (1822) ; Jardine, 



Monogr. Suribirds, pp. 166, 248, pi. i (1843) ; Layard. B. S. Afr. 



p. 75 (1867). 



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