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Africa ; in size it is about intermediate. It resembles C. venustus in the orange and yellow 

 pectoral tufts, and C. talatala in the pure white of the abdominal region. 



Captain Speke, the only other traveller who records having met with this species, observes 

 (Ibis, 1860, p. 247) that he found it on the plateau of the Somali country, always in company 

 with C. habessinicus, flitting around the plants, shrubs, and flowers. 



That it is a very local species we may fairly presume, from so little being known respecting 

 it ; for although it is entered by Von Heuglin in his great work, and by Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub 

 in the ' Vogel Ost-Afrika's,' those gentlemen never had an opportunity of examining a specimen. 



The Sun-bird described by Von Heuglin (J. f. O. 1867, p. 301), and labelled Nectarinia 

 souimanga, in Prince Paul von Wurttemberg's cabinet, evidently belongs to this group, but 

 cannot be confounded with the present species, as it has the abdomen yellow ; but it is positively 

 asserted by that gentleman to be distinct from C. affinis, Riipp., and is apparently an unnamed 

 species, which I shall trust to be able to examine before the conclusion of my present work. 



