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Average meaasurements of adult males of Cinnyris venusta albiven- 

 tris. — Length of skin, 110; wing, 57; tail, 42; culmen, (chord), 16; 

 tarsus, 17. 



Average measurements of adult males of Cinnyris venusta falken- 

 steini. — Length of skin, 105; wing, 53; tail, 37.5; culmen (chord), 18; 

 tarsus, 15.5. 



Average measurements of adult males of Cinnyris venusta fazoqlensis. — 

 Length of skin, 105; wing, 54; tail, 42.5; culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 

 15. 



Remarks. — The fifteen specimens on which this subspecies is based 

 show no approach to Cinnyris venusta fazoqlensis, the form blicki 

 being interposed between C. v. albiventris and C. v. falJcensteini, and 

 ranging from Gardulla, in southern Abyssinia, south to the Nyiro and 

 Indunumara mountains, in British East Africa. 



CINNYRIS MEDIOCRIS GARGUENSIS, new subspecies. 



MOUNT GARGUES DOUBLE-COLLARED SUNBIRD. 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 217754, U.S.N.M.; collected 

 at the summit of Mount Gargues (altitude 7,100 feet), north of the 

 Guaso Nyiro River, in British East Africa, August 27, 1911, by 

 Edmund Heller. (Original number, 249.) 



Characters. — Males with under parts paler than in Cinnyris mediocris 

 Iceniensis or C. m. mediocris; smaller than Iceniensis; about the size 

 of mediocris from Mount Kilimanjaro; female much grayer than the 

 above forms. 



Description of adult male. — Head, neck, lesser wing-coverts, mantle, 

 back, and rump golden-green; upper tail-coverts metallic violet-blue; 

 wings dark brown, greater wing-coverts and quills narrowly edged 

 with citrine-drab; tail bluish black; chest-collar coral red, separated 

 from the green throat by a narrow collar of metallic blue; pectoral 

 tufts citron yellow; under parts, posterior to the red pectoral band, 

 light olive-gray; under wing-coverts and inner portion of quills 

 grayish white. 



Description of adult female topotype. — Upper parts deep olive-gray; 

 tail blue-black, with two outer rectrices narrowly edged with white; 

 chin and throat mouse gray, washed with olive; remaining under 

 parts pale buffy brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 100; whig, 53; 

 tail, 40; culmen (chord), 17.5; tarsus, 17.5. 



Average measurements oj three adult male topotypes. — Wing, 53.7; 

 tail, 41; culmen (chord), 17. 1; tarsus, 17.5. 



Measurements oj female topotype. — Wing, 52; tail, 40; culmen 

 (chord), 17.5; tarsus, 17. 1 



1 For measurements of Cinnyris mediocris mediocris and C. m. keniensis see Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, vol. 56, No. 14, Dec. 23, 1910, p. 4. 



