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Show 1895.] FROM W E S T E R N SOMALI-LAND. 475 According to Heuglin, this Sun-bird is found in the country bordering the Red Sea, extending to the mountains near Suakin, and to those south of the Somali coast. It is found from the sea-coast up to 3000 and 4000 feet, but was not seen in the interior of Abyssinia; it is not rare in Takah. Heuglin thinks that Harris's specimens, said to have been procured in Shoa, must really have been obtained on the Adail coast ; but Antinori states that it is common during the whole year in the low as well as the high '* Kolla." 51. CHALCOMITRA HUNTER I. Chalcomitra hunteri, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 365, pi. xii. fig. 2 (Oseri River); Salvad. t. c. p". 556 (1894 : Goolis Mts.). Cinnyris hunteri, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 592; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 210 (1894). a. Ad. Sillul, Aug. 5, 1894. This Sun-bird was discovered by Mr. Hunter on the Oseri River in the Kilima-njaro district. Mr. Jackson met with it on the Voi River in Teita in December. Count Salvadori has recently recorded the species from the Goolis Mountains, where, however, Mr. Lort Phillips has not yet found it. 52. ANTHOTHREPTES ORIENTALIS. Anihreptes orientalis, Hartl. J. f. O. 1880, p. 213. Anthreptes longuemarii (Less.); Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 39. Anthothreptes longuemarii, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 591. Antrotreptes longuemarii, Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 209 (1894). A. 2 ad. Okoto, Sept. 8, 1894. Iris dark brown. 6. d ad. Smith's River, Sept, 10, 1894. c. Ad. Dabulli, Sept, 16, 1894. These specimens agree with others from Equatorial Africa collected by Emin Pasha. A. orientedis seems to m e always to be distinguishable by the bright metallic-green band across the lower back, this band being absent in A. longuemarii. The species obtained by Heuglin on the W a River in April was doubtless A. orientalis, and he also met with it in winter plumage in January. Antinori procured the same bird in the Djur and Dor districts. It is certainly the species procured by Mr. Jackson from the Teita district, and I have- little doubt that it is also the form recorded from so many places in Eastern Africa by Dr. Reichenow. Fam. ZOSTEROPIDJE. 53. ZOSTEROPS FLAVILATERALIS. Zosterops fiavilateralis, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 192; id. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 208 (1894). |
