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Average measurements of six adult females. — Wing, 104; tail, 74.1; 

 culmen (chord), 14.2; tarsus, 18.3. 



Material. — Thirteen adults from the south end of the Abaya lakes 

 southward to Bodessa on the middle portion of the Sagan River, 

 north of Lake Rudolf, all in southern Abyssinia. 



CINNYRIS VENUSTA BLICKI, new subspecies. 

 BLICK'S BUFF-BREASTED SUNBIRD. 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 217964, U.S.N.M. ; collected 

 near the south shore of Lake Stefanie, in northern British East Africa, 

 May 17, 1912, by J. C. Blick. 



Characters. — Most closely related to Cinnyris venusta albiventris 

 and C. v. falJcensteini, differing from these in being smaller (see 

 measurements below) ; and it also differs from albiventris in having a 

 wash of pale yellow over the lower chest and upper abdomen poste- 

 rior to the metallic violet of the lower throat, these parts being pure 

 white in albiventris, which has the pectoral tufts orange-rufous 

 instead of orange-chrome; from falJcensteini it is readily distinguished 

 by its white sides and crissum and the very pale yellow of the lower 

 chest and upper abdomen. 



Description of adult male. — Forehead, crown, lores, chin, and throat 

 metallic cyanine blue, changing on lower throat and upper chest to 

 hyacinth blue; side of head behind eye, upper side of neck, mantle, 

 lesser upper wing-coverts, back, and rump metallic green largely 

 mixed with violet-blue feathers; upper tail-coverts metallic dusky 

 greenish blue; greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, faintly 

 edged externally with whitish olive; pectoral tufts orange-chrome 

 anteriorly, lemon yellow posteriorly; tail dark blue; under parts, 

 posterior to the dark throat, white washed with very pale yellow 

 except on sides and crissum; thighs black; iris dark brown; bill, feet, 

 and claws black. 



Description of adult female. — Upper parts drab, becoming black on 

 upper tail-coverts; tail blackish blue, its outer feather externally 

 edged with pale gray; superciliary stripe soiled white; under parts 

 white, in some specimens slightly grayish on the chin and throat, and 

 always washed with a scarcely discernible tint of yellow; iris dark 

 brown; bill purplish black, paler at base of mandible; feet and claws 

 plumbeous-black. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 96; wing, 52; 

 tail, 39; culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 16. 



Average measurements of six adult males of Cinnyris venusta blicki. — 

 Wing, 52.7; tail, 36; culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 16. 



Average measurements of six adult females of Cinnyris venusta blicki. — 

 Wing, 49; tail, 38.5; culmen (chord), 15.5; tarsus, 15.5. 



