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Turturoena sharpei Salvad. 



cJinl. Foreheiul ash}' grey ; licad, liiinl-neck, and sides of the neck bright 

 metallic green, with a violet gloss in some lights. Interscapnlary region white, as 

 well as the tips of some of the green feathers of the hjwer hind-neck. Back and 

 wing-coverts coppery-brown, with green and purple reflections on the edges of the 

 feathers. Lower back, rnmp and upper tail-coverts deep blackish grey, with the 

 same green and purj)le reflections on the edges of the feathers. Tail greyish black, 

 with slight olive green reflections and a narrow slaty grey border. Wings blackish 

 brown. Throat dark grey ; underside of neck and breast deep slaty grey, each 

 feather with a broad greenish pui'ple border. Lower breast and abdomen deep 

 vinaceous purj>le, fading into ashy grey towards the vent. Under tail-coverts and 

 flanks dark slate-grey. 



Total length about 121 inches, wing (i-(i, tail damaged, tarsus 0-8, bill 0-66. 



Hub. Nguru, East Equatorial Africa, between Ugogo and Uuinmwesi, collected 

 by the late Emin Paslia (Salvadori's tyjie, Mt. Elgon, .Jackson coll.). (To the 

 synonymy must be added : Turturoena ddegorguei Hartl. [nee Deleg.] Ahh. nattiriv. 

 Ver. Bremen, xii., p. :5~, 1801, in 4. Beitr. z. Orn. ostl. iirjuatorial. Land, und iistl. 

 Ktistengeb. Afr.) 



Osmotreron everetti sp. nov. 



In the British Museum there are twenty-two specimens of Osmotreron axillaris 

 from various localities in the Philippine Archipelago, while there was up to three 

 months ago only one single bird from the Sulu Islands. It is not, therefore, 

 suriH'ising that Count Salvadori did not recoguise the latter as being specifically 

 distinct. Within the last three months, however, a number of specimens have 

 reached this country from Mr. A. Everett, collected on the islands of Bongao and 

 Sibutu, the southernruost islands of the Sulu group, of which I have in my collection 

 two males and a female. In addition to these I have two specimens, S and j , from 

 Sulu Island, collected by Mr. H. Guillemard, during the vo3-age of the Marchesa, in 

 1883, and I find that all the specimens from the Sulu archipelago present constant 

 and easily recognised differences from the Philippine birds, and therefore describe 

 it under the above name. 



Osmotreron everetti resembles 0. a.cillaris from the Philippines, but is alto- 

 gether a larger bird ; the jmrplish chestnut mantle is bordered above by a very 

 conspicuous interscapnlary band of lavender-grey, of the same colour as the crown ; 

 this colour is of a lighter shade than in 0. axillaris, and the interscapnlary band is 

 much less distinct and not so pure grey in the latter. In O. everetti the green of 

 the neck and breast is a shade lighter and more tinged with yellow, the abdomen 

 paler and more greyish along the middle. 



I have no female of true 0. axillaris to compare, but the female of O. everetti 

 seems to be larger, and the mantle much darker olive. 



Total length of my 0. everetti about 1 1 inches. Wing 6-35 to 6-.5 ( j 0-4 to O'o), 

 tail 3-6 to 3-65, bill 0-75, tarsus 09. " Iris greenish silvery " (A. Everett) ; " iris 

 l)early-green, bill red at base, blue at tip, feet pale slate " (H. Guillemard). 



Total length of my 0. axillaris from Mindanao about 10 inches, wing o-ii to 

 6 inches, tail 3-4, bill 0-6.5, tarsus 0-8. " Iris light blue, bill at base reddish brown, 

 feet light greenish-grey" (Dr. C. Platen). 



Habitat of 0. everetti : Sulu Archipelago, Sulu, Jlcimliun, Sibutu, and Bongao 

 Islands ; of 0. axillaris : Pliilijipines, from Lu/.on to Mindanao (? and Basilan). 



