Abstract
During August 1981 a ten‐day visit was paid to Mwanihana Forest Reserve, a rain forest on the eastern scarp of Uzungwa Mountains, eastern Tanzania. Stuart et al. (1981) and Stuart & Jensen (1981) have documented a number of notable range extensions of forest birds from this area, which, until recently, was unexplored by ornithologists. Jensen & Stuart (in press) described four new subspecies of birds and Homewood & Rodgers (in press) described a new subspecies of the Crested Mangabey Cercocebus galeritus from the same locality. Both the physiognomy of the rainforest and the composition of the avifauna suggest strong affinities between Mwanihana Forest, and the forested scarps of other basement block mountains in eastern Tanzania, most notably the Mgurus and the Ulugurus (Stuart, et al. 1981).On 2 August 1981, while carrying out a mist‐netting study in the forest at 1000 m, a male specimen was caught of a very distinct and hitherto undescribed sunbird. On a subsequent visit in September 1981, Miss T. A. van der Willigen, S. N. Stuart and Dr K. M. Howell secured a female specimen of this new species to be described as:
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