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greenish-grey/' Wing ( d" ? ) 72-74 ; tail 62-64 ; cul- 

 men 15*5-16 ; tarsus 16-17 mm. 



Type : No. 468, ^ ad, Degama, Southern Nigeria, 

 19. X. 1902. Collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge. 



Hab. Degama and Gregani, Southern Nigeria. Eight 

 specimens. 



This new species differs from A, virens, A. gracilis, 

 A. curvirostris, and tlieir allies, all of which have been 

 compared Avith it. 



Ploceus rubiginosus cinnamominus, subsp. n. 



J ad. Differs at a glance from P. rubiginosus rubiginosus 

 by the much lighter colour of the back, which is not bright 

 bay or chestnut, but bright cinnamon with a yellow tinge, 

 lighter breast and abdomen, and much paler under tail- 

 coverts, which are creamy whitish, with or without a cin- 

 namon wash. The females and males in breeding-plumage 

 are slightly paler than those of P. rubiginosus rubiginosus. 

 " Iris blood- red or orange-red ; bill of males black ; feet 

 purplish flesh-colour." Wing of males 84-87 mm. 



Type : S ad.. No. 1436. Kimukua, Mossamedes, South 

 Angola, 14. iii. 1906 : Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Hab. Southern Angola : Mossamedes and Benguella, 

 apparently also Damaraland. {Cf. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 474, footnote ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 56 ; where it 

 has been already suggested that the Angolan birds might 

 differ from those of East Africa.) 



Dr. E. Hartert exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Alwin 

 Haagner, F.Z.S., a specimen of a new Sunbird from South 

 Africa, which Mr. Haagner proposed to call 



CiNNYRIS OLIVACEUS DAVIESI, Subsp. U. 



" Similar to Cinnyris olivaceus oUvaceus from Natal, but 

 differing in the distinct admixture of orange-red in the 

 yellow pectoral tufts, darker forehead, and longer bill. The 

 longest bill in the scries of the Natal bird in the British 

 Museum does not approach to within 2 mm. of that of the 



