hy Ml'. Claude Grant in South Africa. 275 



C. reichenuvi from East Africa, from which, ho\yever, it is 

 readily distinguishable by the sooty-brown colour of the 

 breast and abdomen. This character also at once distin- 

 guishes it from the other Double-collared. Sun-birds of South 

 Africa; it has, moreover, a very short bill, averaging 15 mm. 

 What I take to be a young male, dated. Aug. 3, is without 

 the yellow tufts and has the abdomen greyish white. Two 

 females in the series collected 1 can only distinguish from 

 those of C. chalyheus by their short bills. 



[This pretty little Sun-bird was only found in the type 

 locality, where it could not be considered common ; it 

 frequented certain flowering climbers bordering the paths 

 and roads and a large species of flowering tree growing near 

 my camp, in company with the other species of Sun-bird. 

 In flight and call it resembles C. microrhyncfius. 



The soft parts are: — Irides dark brown; bill, legs and 

 toes black.] 



163. Chalcomitra gutturalis. 



Z. Umfulosi Station, July (1); Hluhluwe Stream, Aug, 

 (IJ ; Tv, Klein Letaba, Sept. (6); P. Coguno, June, Aug. 

 (5); Masambeti, Oct. (1) ; Tambarara, Mch., Apl. (3) ; Tete, 

 Aug. (1). 



[The Scarlet-chested Sun-bird was noted from the coast 

 country of Natal and Zululand, the low veld of the North- 

 Easteru Transvaal, and the Inhambane, Beira, Gorongoza, 

 and Tete districts of Portuguese East Africa. It seems to 

 be more or less confined lo the low "bush-veld^' country, 

 and is commonly found wherever Kigelia exists_, from the 

 crimson blossoms of which it extracts nectar, poised on 

 rapidly beating wings. In the Imhambane district it feeds 

 on this and the " caout-chouc " tree. Like most of the other 

 Suu-birds, it varies its diet with insects. The flight is swift 

 and darting, the call being loud and sharp, and the adult 

 males sometimes indulging in a few warbling notes of 

 a song. 



The soft parts are: — Irides dark brown; bill, legs and 

 toes black.] 



