328 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OF THE EUWENZOEl EXPEDITION. 



worn plumage, while that from Mount Maungu, killed in April, is freshly moulted ; 

 but this difference could scarcely account for the difference in length of the tail, and 

 it must be further noted that the short-tailed bird from S.E. Ruwenzori (No. 1527), 

 killed in May, was procured with three long-tailed specimens shot in the same locality 

 and during the same month. The matter requires further investigation. 



[The Least Bifasciated Sun-bird was obtained only on the plains on the S.E. of 

 Ruwenzori, where it was not uncommon. — R. B. PF.] 



CiNNYEis BouviEBi Shelley. 



Cinnyris bouvieri Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 57 (1900) ; Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 483 (1905). 



a. 6 . Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori, 5000 ft., 28th Feb. [No. 3185. B. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



This bird closely resembles the type-specimen of C. houvieri from Landana, but is 

 somewhat larger as regards the measurements of the wing and tail ; while the bill is 

 a trifle shorter, and very much shorter than in the type-specimen of C. tanganyiccB 

 Grant, which I recently described from the western shores of Lake Tanganyika 

 {cf. 'Ibis,'1908, p. 283). 



Culmen. Wing. Tail, 



in. in. in. 



Type of Cinnyris bouvieri ...... 0'9 2'1 1'4 



Male from Eastern Ruwenzori .... 0'8 2"3 1'55 



Tj'^pe of C. tanganyic(B 1-02 2"25 1"55 



The Euwenzori bird appears to have rather less blue on the forehead ; but the 

 pecimen is in worn plumage with much of the green metallic plumage of the upper- 

 parts and throat weathered to a pinkish-bronze colour. 



The type of C. tanganyiccB is further distinguished from the other specimens men- 

 tioned above by its differently coloured orange-and-yellow (not scarlet-and-yellow) 

 pectoral tufts. 



The discovery of this West-African species on Euwenzori greatly extends its known 

 range. 



[A few examples of Bouvier's Sun-bird were seen between Entebbe and Euwenzori 

 and at the foot of the mountains on the east side to the north of the Mubuku Valley ; 

 but they were not found among the acacia-country around the south end, where 

 C. microrhynchus, a very similar species, was so plentiful. — B. B. WJ] 



Cinnyris chloeopygius (Jardine). 



Cinnyris chloropygius Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 83 (1900) [part.]. 



Cinnyris chloropygius luhderi, p. 486, and C. c. orphogaster, p. 487, Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. 



(1905). 

 Cinnyris preussi Sharpe (nee Reich.), Ibisj 1908, p. 338 [Camaroon]. 



