e ; O . Auk 
158 RICHMOND, New Birds from East Africa. April 
thighs, axillaries, and under wing-coverts cinnamon buff; edge of wing 
nile blue. “Bill and irides red.” Wing, 2.08 inches; tail, 2.14; tarsus, 
58; culmen, .36. 
This species is closely related to #. angolensis, but the entire 
head is blue; the brown of the upper surface and wings is darker, 
and the abdomen and under tail-coverts are of a deeper color. 
A second specimen in the collection, also an adult male, was 
collected on the plains east of Kilimanjaro, October 5, 1888. 
4. Cinnyris nectarinioides, new species. 
Type. — No. 118227, U. S. N.M.; male, adult, Plains east of Mount 
Kilimanjaro, October 1, 1888, Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 
Entire head, neck, back, rump, and lesser wing-coverts metallic brassy 
green; upper tail-coverts metallic steel blue; lower throat narrowly 
edged with metallic deep blue; breast with a broad band of orange-ver- 
milion ; yellow pectoral tufts present; abdomen, under tail-coverts, wings 
and wing-coverts (except least), under wing-coverts, and tail, black, the 
latter with the feathers (central ones particularly) edged with purple 
basally, and with green on terminal half. Bill, feet, and tarsi black in 
dried skin. Wing, 2.03 inches; tail 1.47; narrow central feathers, 2.25; 
tarsus, .60; culmen, .7o. 
Another adult male, obtained October 22, 1888, at Aruscha-wa-chini, 
southwest of Kilimanjaro, measures: wing, 2.07 inches; tail, 1.47 (central 
pair of feathers narrow but not fully grown) ; culmen .72. 
This specimen agrees very closely with the type, but the greater wing- 
coverts are narrowly edged with metallic green. 
This species seems to be related to C. mariguensts, or to one of 
its subspecies, but differs from all of them in the possession of 
moderate yellow pectoral tufts, and in the very narrow long central 
tail feathers, which project three quarters of an inch beyond the 
rest of the tail. 
Captain Shelley has called attention to an occasional tendency 
in C, mariguensis to the development of long central tail feathers, 
but in the specimen observed by him the central feathers were 
only 0.15 inch longer than the rest of the tail, while in the present 
case they are fully 0.75 inch. 
5. Amydrus ? dubius, new species. 
Type. —No, 118112, U. S. N. M.; female, adult, Taveita, East Africa, 
August 17, 1888; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 
