272 " MuscrcAPiD^. 



The series examined in the Leiden Museum agrees with the type 

 in the British Museum. 

 Hah. N.W. New Guinea. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Dorey, New Guinea. A. K.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



35. CHLOROPETA. „ 



lype. 



Chloropeta, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. 112 (1847). C. natalensis. 



Bill and leg of Chloropeta natalensis. 

 Bange. South Africa, ranging into the Congo district. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Third primary equalling the sixth in length : dull 



yellowish olive, underneath dull yellow ; sides of 

 neck, thighs, rump, and vent tinged with huffish 

 colour ; head rather dusky above, with a didl yel- 

 lowish superciliary streak tiatalensis, p. 272. 



b. Third primary equalling the seventh in length : bright 



yellowish green ; underneath very briglit yellow ; 

 streak above the lores yellow : sides of neck uni- 

 form with the back icterina, p. 273. 



1. Chloropeta natalensis. 



Chloropeta natalensis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. 112. fig. 2 ; 



Stindev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Slockli 1850, p. 105 ; Reichen. 



Corresp. Afrik. Oesellsch. Berlin, 1875, p. 177, no. 5 ; Barratt, 



Ibis, 1876," p. 202 ; At/res, t. c. p. 428 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. 



Afr. p. 335. 

 Hypolais natalensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 280. 

 Sylvia natalensis, Laxjard, B. S. Afr. p. 102, no. 188 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 214, no. 3026. 



Adult male. General colo'ur above dull olive-yeUow, yellower on 

 the back, all the feathers being brown towards the base ; the head 

 browner than the back, the yeUow margins not so broad ; wing- 

 coverts and quills very dark brown, all margined with dull olive- 

 yellow ; tail rather lighter brown, the feathers margined with olive- 

 yellow, paler and inclining to whitish at the tip of the outermost ; 

 feathers in front of the eye bright lemon-yellow ; ear-coverts olive, 

 with narrow shaft-lines of bright yellow ; cheeks, sides of neck, and 

 entire under surface of body, including the thighs and under wing- 

 and tail-coverts, bright yellow, the flanks slightly washed with 

 olive-brown ; " bill dusky, the under mandible yellow ; tarsi and 

 feet dusky ; iris hazel " (Ayres). Total length 4"9 inches, culmen 

 Goo, wing 2-4, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-5. 



