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vol. 48. 



Geographical range. — Known only from Mount Gargues, British 

 East Africa. 



CINNYRIS REICHENOWI KIKUYENSIS, new subspecies. 



KIKUYU DOUBLE-COLLARED SUNBIRD. 



Type-specimen.— Adult male, Cat, No. 246001, U.S.N.M.; collected 

 at Escarpment Station (altitude 7,390 feet) on the Uganda Railway 

 in the Kikuyu Mountains, British East Africa, September 6, 1912, 

 b} r Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, 24076.) 



Characters. — Smaller than Cinnyris reichenowi reichenowi Sharpe 

 from Sotik, northeast of Victoria Nyanza, 1 and more grayish, less 

 ochraceous, on the under parts posterior to the red pectoral collar. 



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

 coverts, and back metallic golden-green; upper tail-coverts, and a 

 narrow collar separating the green of the throat from the red chest, 

 metallic blue-violet; greater wing-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 the feathers externally edged with dark citrine; tail blue-black; 

 chest broadly banded with nopal red (20 millimeters in width); 

 posterior under parts dark olive-gray anteriorly, changing to citrine- 

 drab on crissum; pectoral tufts lemon yellow; under wing-coverts 

 neutral gray; inner border of quills pale neutral gray; iris dark 

 brown; bill, feet, and claws black. 



Comparative measurements of males. 



Name. 



Length 

 of skin. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culm en 



(chord). 



Tarsus. 



Cinnyris reichenoici reichenoici, from original de- 

 scription 



Cinnvris reichenoici reichenovci, from Reichenow's 

 Vogel Afrikas, vol. 3, 1905, p. 491 



Cinnyris reichenowi reichenovci, from Mount Ruwen- 

 zori 



Cinnyris an-sorgei, from original description 



Cinnyris reichenoici Mkuyensis, type 



102 



110-115 



112 



95 



53.3 



51-53 



54 

 53 

 53 



35.6 



36-40 



42 

 40 

 40 



18.5 



15-16 



15 



i IS. 3 



13 



16.5 



16-17 



16 

 20 

 15 



1 Reichenow, Vogel Afrikas, vol. 3, 1905, p. 491, states that this is an error, and that the culm en measures 

 15 millimeters. 



CHALCOMITRA SENEGALENSIS ATRA, new subspecies. 

 BLACK SCARLET-BREASTED SUNBIRD. 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 246077, U.S.N.M.; col- 

 lected on the Thika River, at Camp No. 2 of the Childs Frick African 

 Expedition, 20 miles above its junction with the Tana River, in 

 British East Africa, August 27, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original 

 number, 23912.) 



Characters. — The blackest form of the Chalcomitra senegalensis 

 group. Most closely related to Chalcomitra senegalensis scquatorialis 

 (Reichenow) from Victoria Nyanza, from which it differs in being 



i Cinnyris ansorgei Hartert, from Xandi Station, is considered to be a synonym of C. r. reichenowi. 



