370 PSITTACID.E. 



Adult. Green ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, lower breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts lighter and brighter ; the concealed 

 parts of the feathers have a yellowish tinge ; the darker green feathers 

 of the neck, back, breast, and wings have brighter green edges ; 

 forehead, vertex, lores, region round the eyes, and upper part of the 

 cheeks yellow ; thighs more or less yellow ; quills brown, tinged 

 with green on their outer webs and edged with green ; tail olive- 

 brown with a golden tinge, especially underneath : " irides red or 

 reddish ; bill pale dusky horn-colour, with the lower mandible 

 more or less whitish; feet ashy or blackish" (Antlnori). Total 

 length about 12-5 inches, wing 7, tail 3-3, bill 1*1, tarsus 06. 



Hab. North-east Africa, from Shoa to Abyssinia. 



Some specimens have nearly the. whole head yellow, others show 

 a few yellow feathers along the carpal edge. 



a, b. d $ ad. sk. Shoa, Sept. and Dec. (Antinori). Shelley Coll. 



c. Ad. st. Shoa. Riippell Coll. 



9. Pyocephalus citrinocapillus. 



Pkseocepkalus, sp. 2, Hevgl. Journ.f. Orn. 1862, p. 305. 



Psittacus flavifrons, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 35, specim. 



2 (1864). 

 Phseocephalus citreocapillus, Heugl. in Mus. Lugd., teste Schleg. Mus. 



P.-B. Psittaci, p. 35 (1864). 

 Psittacus citrinocapillus, Heugl. MS. 

 Pionias citrinocapillus, Finseli, Papaq. ii. p. 484 (18(iS); Hn/ol. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. 2, p. 744 (1871) ; id. op. cit. Nachtr. p. clvii (1871); 



Gieb. fhes. Orn. iii. p. 189 (1877). 

 Psittacus citreicapillus, Hevgl. MS.; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. t. xxvi. 



Poicephalus citrinocapillus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 161, n. 8289 



(1870). 

 Pceocephalus citrinocapillus, Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xx. f. 6 (1878-83) ; 



id. Jovrn.f. Orn. 1881, p. 386 (Consp. Psitt. p. 226). 



Adult. Very much like P. flavifrons, but the lower back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, abdomen, and under tail-coverts bluish green ; 

 the yellow colour of the head more extended ; the metacarpal edge 

 yellow ; the bill stronger ; dimensions nearly the same as those of 

 P. flavifrons. 



Young. Head dirty olive-brownish, washed with yellowish ; under 

 wing-coverts with broad yellowish-green edges ; only some trace of 

 the yellow feathers on the metacarpal edge. 



Hob. Abyssinia. 



I have never seen a specimen of this species, but from the fact 

 of its having been found along the Ataba river, where Heuglin also 

 met with P. flavifrons, I doubt whether it is really distinct. 



