BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE BELGIAN CONGO 709 
Nectarinia congensis Oort 
Nectarinia congensis Oort, Orn. Monatsb., xviii, 1910, pp. 54-55: Lower Congo. 
Male and female, Bumba, 1 January 1927. 
These two birds agree with the description of this species, which I have not 
otherwise seen except in the American Museum of Natural History, where Dr. 
James P. Chapin showed me his excellent series, but with which I have not com- 
pared the present specimens. 
Cinnyris cupreus chalceus (Hartlaub) 
Nectarinia chalcea Hartlaub, Ibis, 1862, p. 341: Cambambe, Angola. 
Male, Luvungi, 31 January 1927. 
Bannerman (Rev. Zool. Afr., ix 1922, pp. 327-328) restricts chalceus to 
Angola, but Gyldenstolpe (Kung. Sv. Vet. Akad. HandIngr., 1924, pp. 87-88) 
has shown that many of the characters of chalceus as given by Hartlaub do not 
hold and that the only difference between it and typical cupreus is that the 
former is larger and has a longer bill. Birds of this type range east to the Sem- 
liki valley and to the eastern Congoland generally. 
Cinnyris chloropygius orphogaster Reichenow 
Cinnyris chloropygius orphogaster Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb., 1899, p. 169: Bukoba, w. of Victoria 
Nyanza. 
Male, Bumba, 2 January 1927. 
The bird was in breeding condition when collected. It has a wing of 50 mm. 
which agrees with the measurements of Gyldenstolpe’s birds from the eastern 
Congo (Semliki Valley). Bannerman (Rev. Zool. Afr., ix, 1922, pp. 330-333) 
writes that Uganda birds have wings of from 52-55.5 mm. while birds from the 
Uelle and Aruwimi rivers have wings of from 49-52.5 mm. Two males from 
Ruanda, Uganda (M.C.Z. 95533 and 95534) have wings of 52 and 53.5 mm., 
respectively. One of them (M.C.Z. 95534) has bright purple upper tail coverts 
and a purple margin to the green throat. 
Sylviidae 
Cisticola lugubris amphilecta Reichenow 
Cisticola lugubris amphilecta Reichenow, Jour. f. Orn., 1875, p. 144: Accra, Gold Coast. 
Two males, Bumba, 2 January 1927. 
These two birds probably belong to the western race, amphilecta. They 
have longer, more slender culmens than nyansae, and are very slightly darker. 
The difference between amphilecta and nyansae is not great, however. In this 
connection it is interesting to note that Gyldenstolpe (Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. 
Handlngr., 1924, p. 132) writes that his specimens from Angi, west of Lake 
Edward, are intermediate between amphilecta and nyansae, although he records 
them under the latter name. 
