

shaded with yellow on the abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts. Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 2-6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. Western and North-eastern Africa. 



The adult male of Longuemare's Sun-bird is distinguished by the metallic bluish violet of the 

 upper parts, as well as of the throat, and by the white breast. The female is known by the ashy- 

 brown colouring of the upper parts, a broad white eyebrow, and the metallic violet of the upper 

 tail-coverts and edges of the tail-feathers. 



This beautiful species, although by no means common, has an extended range in West 

 Africa, and also occurs in the north-eastern portion of the continent. 



In the latter part the Marquis Antinori met with this species below 5° N. lat., in a dense 

 forest which separates the districts inhabited by the Djur and Dor negroes, in the month of 

 February, and considered it to be very rare in that part of Africa. Baron von Heuglin also 

 procured it in the same region on the river Wau both in January and April ; in the former 

 month it was in the winter dress, but in April had assumed its full plumage. It lives, he 

 remarks, singly or in pairs, frequenting the bushes and trees near water, and is probably not 

 migratory. It is not shy, but is very restless in its habits, constantly hopping or fluttering from 

 branch to branch, and is frequently seen to descend to the water to drink, especially in the mornings 

 and evenings ; and they were never seen in the dry woods. They have a soft, piping call-note ; 

 but he never noticed them to have any actual song. 



Lesson's type came from the interior of Senegal, where we presume it to be most abundant; 

 for Marche and De Compiegne collected it at Ponte, in Senegal ; Swainson's type of A. leucosoma 

 came from the Gambia; and M. Verreaux procured it from Casamanse ; two of the latter's 

 specimens, now in the British Museum, I have figured and described. 



During the expedition to the Niger it was collected in the thickets surrounding Aboh. It 

 is, however, apparently not found on the Gold Coast ; and I am not aware of its having been 

 captured in the Cameroon, Gaboon, or Congo districts, although it occurs as far south as 

 Benguela, where it has been collected by Senor Anchieta in the interior in the neighbourhood 

 of Caconda. 



