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9. ■^Linurgus rufobrunneus. 



Buserinus 7'ufilatus Hartlaub, P. Z. S. 1866_, p. 328; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, 1903^ p. 50. 



Linurgus rufobrunneus G. Ti. Gray ; Shelley, Birds of 

 Africa, iii. 1902, p. 172 ; Salvadori, Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, 

 i. 1903, p. 6. 



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This species is confined to Prince's Island, its place being 

 taken on the island of St. Thomas by Linurgus thomensis. 

 The representative of the genus on Fernando Po and the 

 adjoining mainland — Linurgus olivaceus — is entirely dif- 

 ferent from both these forms in the style of the 

 colouring. 



Dohrn considered it to be a rare bird, confined to a very 

 restricted locality of the West Bay, where it lived in bushy 

 uncultivated places. 



10. ^Cinnyris hartlauld. 



Cyanomitra hartlaubi (Verr.) ; Shelley, Birds of Africa, 

 ii. 1900, p. 135. 



Cinnyris hartlaubi Salvadori, Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, i. 

 1903. p. 4 ; Bocage, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, 1903, p. 48. 



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The type-specimen of C hartlaubi [ex Verreaux Coll.) 

 is said to have been obtained in Angola (Hartlaub, Orn. 

 W. Afr. p. 50). Unfortunately, the localities of Verreaux 

 skins cannot be relied upon, and it is now almost certain 

 that C. hartlaubi is confined to Prince's Island. No speci- 

 mens have ever been taken on the mainland as far as 

 we know. 



This species is said by Messrs. Dohrn &/ Keulemans to 

 be fairly common all over the island except in the dense 

 forest, where its place is taken by C. obscurus. Apparently 



