

gutture et jugulo dilute chocolatino-brunneis : corpore reliquo subtus pallide fulvescente, flavo vix 

 tincto : hypochondriis brunneo lavatis. 



Hab. in Africa occidentals 



Adult Male. Chocolate-brown, palest on the back and sides of the head and neck, and shading into darker 

 brown on the lower back, median series of wing-coverts, and on the undersurface of the body ; forehead 

 and front of the crown steel-blue, shaded with violet ; in front of the eyes black ; least series of wing- 

 coverts metallic lilac ; upper tail-coverts metallic lilac, often shaded with bronzy green ; remainder of 

 the wings and the tail brownish black, glossed with reddish brown, more sparingly on the outer webs 

 of the feathers ; chin and throat metallic lilac, often glossed with steel-blue, and occasionally with a 

 few green feathers upon the chin ; pectoral tufts sulphur-yellow ; under surface of the wings brownish 

 black, with the coverts dark chocolate-brown ; bill and legs black ; irides dark brown. Total length 

 5 - 4 inches, culmen 095, wing 2 - 7, tail 1*9, tarsus 065. 



Adult Female. Head, neck, and mantle brownish buff; least and median series of wing-coverts, scapulars, 

 and lower back rather darker, and partially shaded with olive ; upper tail-coverts dark brown, broadly 

 edged with pale brown ; remainder of the wings dark brown, with pale brown edges to the feathers ; 

 tail dark brown, with narrow whitish tips to the feathers, broadest on the outer ones ; feathers in front 

 of the eyes and the chin and throat dark brown ; lores, sides of the throat, and the under surface of 

 the body buff; front of the chest slightly mottled with brown; flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 faintly tinted with olive ; under surface of the wings dark brown, with the inner margins of the quills 

 and the coverts white, the latter slightly tinted with olive, and mottled with dark brown ; bill and legs 

 black; irides dark browu. Total length -i'8 inches, culmen 0'8o, wing 2 - 5, tail 1"6, tarsus - 65. 



Male in full moult. Similar in plumage to the adult female. 



Hab. West Africa, from Senegal to Angola. 



The Carmelite Sun-bird may be readily recognized by the brown colour of its plumage and by 

 the metallic violet forehead. It most nearly approaches the South-African C. amethystinus, in 

 which bird the plumage is nearly black, and the entire forehead and crown metallic green. 



It appears to inhabit the entire West- African region, from Senegal to Angola ; but is doubt- 

 less rare in the northern portion, only being known to us from Senegal and Senegambia upon the 

 authority of M. Verreaux, while from Liberia there is a specimen in Prince Wurtemberg's 

 collection. It seems to be more abundant as we approach the equator ; and according to 

 Governor Ussher, who has collected it at Cape-Coast Castle, on the river Volta, and at Lagos, 

 it is " moderately common on the Gold Coast ;" but on that portion of the coast we presume it 

 to be migratory, at least to some extent ; for neither Mr. Buckley nor myself met with it there in 

 February and March. 



I have examined the specimens collected by Mr. Crossley in the Cameroon Mountains and the 

 Victoria Forest in January 1871, and a large series from the Gaboon, including Mr. Duchaillu's 

 specimens from Moonda, Ogowai, and Camma rivers, from the Congo specimens collected by 

 Mr. Petit at Landana and Chinchonxo, and Captain Sperling's specimens from Cabinda (here it 

 has also been collected by Seiior Anchieta, according to whose notes it is known to the natives 

 by the name of " Futila "). 



The type of this species was collected at Malemba by Perrein. 



