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in the British Museum collection in which the metallic feathers of the back are 

 obviously moulting, many being only partially grown, but there is not a single 

 specimen with the metallic back which is assuming the olive-brown plumao-e, and if 

 this intermediate plumage was really an eclipse plumage such specimens would certainly 

 be found among the large series I have examined. I therefore assume that males of 

 the genus Nectarinia, unlike the males of Cinnyris, do not assume the fully adult 

 plumage during the first year, and that during that period they are clad in an inter- 

 mediate and partly hen-like plumage. 



[A few examples of the Northern Malachite Sun-bird were met with just at the foot 

 of the mountains on the west side of Ruwenzori, near the mouth of the Butao-u River. 

 They were not uncommon at this spot, but were never met with again throughout the 

 whole journey. — E. B. WJ] 



jSTectarinia KlLIMK^rsIS Shelley. (Plate XIX. fig. 9, egg.) 



Nectarinia kilimensis Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 28, pi. i. fig. 1 (1900) ; E,eich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 502 

 (1905); Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 555 [Toro] . 



a-e. d . 90 to 120 miles W. of Entebbe, 4000 ft., 4th-9th Dec. [Nos. 43. B. E. I). ; 



1031, 1043. D. a ; 3027, 3047. B. B. W.] 

 f-i. c? $ et d imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., 28th-31st Dec. 



d. 



[Nos. 10d7. D. C; 2032, 2035, 2042. G. L.] 



d. 



k-0. d ?. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., ]st-24th Jan. [Nos. To. 



B. E. B. ; 1080. D. C. ; 2067, 2112. G. L. ; 3071. B. B. W.] 

 p. a imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 7000 ft., 25th Feb. [No. 175. B. E. Z».] 

 q-x. cJ $. „ „ „ 5000-6000 ft., 16th & 23rd March. 



[Nos. 206, 210, 221. B. E. D. ■ 1363, 1364. D. C. ; 2205, 2207, 2209. G. Z.] 

 y. 6 imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., 7th April. [No. 2281. G. X.] 

 z. ? . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 24th July. [No. 2433. G. L.'] 

 Adult male and female. Iris dark hazel or dark brown ; bill and feet black. 

 I am rather doubtful if specimen 2433 is really a female of JS. Jiilimensis, for it has 

 the general colour of the underparts brownish-yellow. It, however, closely resembles 

 a female from Toro in the Jackson Collection, which latter has the underparts inter- 

 mediate in colour between typical yellow-breasted N. kilimensis and the browner- 

 breasted bird from Fort Beni. 



Tlie egg figured on the accompanying Plate forms part of Mr. F. J. Jackson's 

 collection, and was procured on the Man Downs on the 18th of December, 1895. 

 [The Kilimanjaro Bronze Sun-bird was met with almost everywhere throughout the 



