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throat ; the chest is bright vei iiiilioii with a narrow subteMuinal light bhie 
bar to each feather. Female brown above, buff below. The young niale.s 
at first resemble the females, but later 011 become mottled with bright 
colours, which gradually spread till the full plumage is obtained. The 
moult takes place, as with most of our birds, at the beginning of the dry 
season, about December, and specimens obtained then are dirty and duU- 
plumaged. 
Cfuligiiiom. CARMEI-ITE SUNBIRD. 
Range. Seneganibia to Congo, commoner towards the Equator. {Sh.) 
C. adelbeili. BUI- F-THROATED SUNBIRD. 
Range. Senegambia to Gold Coast. [Sh.) 
I know neither of these birds; both are brown, not unlike C. senega- 
lensis, from which however they differ in having no red chest-band. The 
crown and throat in fuliginosa is lilac, in adelbei li green. 
Cyanomiira veriicalis. GREEN-HEADED OLIVE SUNBIRD. 
Range. Gambia to Angola and through Equatorial Africa to 
Masailand. {Sh.) 
This is rather larger and more stoutly built bird than those of the 
preceding ^w/ws and is much less gorgeously plumaged, its chief hues being 
various shades of brown or olive with no metallic colours, except in tlie 
breeding season, when both sexes have metallic blue-green heads and necks. 
At McCarthy Island, in November and December, I often see comparatively 
large plain-colouied Suiibirds feeding among the branches of Soto and 
Kobbo trees, and these I am practically certain are of this species. 
Antholhreples longuemarii. VIOLET-BACKED SUNBIRD. 
Range. Senegambia to Benguela. {Sh.) 
In this species also and in two of the other Ganibiau representatives 
of the genus, both male and female have metallic plumage, which wheu 
once assumed probably persists through life. It is a very noticeable bird, 
as the whole upper surface and throat is a bright metallic violet set off with 
pure white under-parls and lemon yellow pectoral tufts. They are fairly 
common in Bathurst and in many parts of the Protectorate, especially 
during the rains. 
Three other members of the genus Anlholhreptes are recorded from 
Gambia, but none of them are actually known to me, and are probably rare 
here. They are : 
A. hypodila. TROPICAL COLLARED SUNBIRD. 
A metallic green bird with a violet collar, which is found throughout 
nearly the whole of Tropical Africa, and of which there are specimens from 
Gambia in the Bremen Museum. {Sh.) 
A. recliroslris. YELLOW-CHINNED COLLARED SUNBIRD. 
Range. Gambia (one specimen in the British Museum) to the Volta 
River. (Sh.) Upper parts golden green, chin and throat yellow. 
