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examined the bird, are of opinion that it is the young of my 

 P. alexanderi. I was at first inclined to believe that this 

 could not be the case and that it was therefore a new form, 

 but until we have more specimens of P. alexanderi with 

 which to compare it, this cannot be proved. It would 

 certainly be very extraordinary to find two species on Came- 

 roon Mountain. The following is a description of the bird 

 in question. 



Female. Forehead, crown, and back of the neck rufous- 

 brown ; lores, cheeks, and a narrow stripe over the eye pale 

 chestnut ; rest of upperparts dark olive washed with rufous; 

 primaries and two middle pairs of tail-feathers dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts white tipped with pale yellow towards 

 the bend of the wing ; throat whitish ash-colour ; breast 

 and flanks pale olive washed with rufous towards the thighs, 

 thighs dark rufous-brown; middle of the breast and belly 

 pale yellow; under tail-coverts pale chestnut. Bill dark 

 horn-colour; legs dark. Culmen (exposed portion) 12 ram.; 

 wing 51 ; tail 28-5 ; tarsus 23 mm. 



This specimen, at first sight, most nearly resembles P. 

 helenora Alexander, from which it differs in having the upper- 

 parts dark olive washed with rufous (which in the Fernando 

 Po bird are dusky olive-brown) and in having the underparts 

 olivaceous strongly washed with greenish-yellow instead of 

 being grey. 



It is worthy of note that according to Alexander and 

 Seimund the sexes in P. helenora are alike in plumage. 

 If the specimen from Cameroon Mountain described above 

 is not a new species it must be the young of P. alexanderi. 

 It has the yellowish belly characteristic of the young of 

 P. helenorce, but it certainly has not the appearance of a 

 very young bird in other respects. 



[Rare, found in the forest above Buea. — B. A.] 



44). Prinia epichlora. 



Burnesia epichlora Reichw. Journ, fiir Orn. 1892, j). 193: 

 Buea, Cameroon Mt. 



