690 Hon. W. Rothschild on a neiv Bird from Africa. 



XXXV. — Description of a new Bird from Africa. 

 By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate X.) 



PsEUDOCALYPTOMENAj gen. HOV. 



Bill apparently hard, very wide, like that of a Serilophus 

 (family Eurylsemidse), but more pointed, slightly hooked 

 and with a deep notch before the tip. Nostrils bare of 

 feathers and with a distinct operculum. Only a few thin 

 and short bristles below the lores. Wing with ten pri- 

 maries; third and fourth equal and longest, fifth very little 

 shorter, first, in length, between the sixth and seventh. 

 Second to fifth distinctly emarginated for about 25 mm. 

 from the tip. Longest secondaries about 15 mm. shorter 

 than longest primaries. Tail rounded, slightly longer than 

 half the wing. Number of rectrices 12. Tarsus scutellated 

 in front. 



The position of this remarkable bird is uncertain ; it is 

 apparently a very aberrant Flycatcher, in spite of its fully 

 developed first primary, but at the first glance somewhat 

 resembles a Calyptomena (Euryliemidae) on account of the 

 shape of its bill, its short tail, and its green and blue colour, 

 a combination of characters which is quite unique among 

 African Passeres. 



PSEUUOCALYPTOMENA GRAUERI, Sp. n. 



^ . Forehead to beyond the eyes greenish buflF, each 

 feather with a wide median brown streak ; occiput and rest 

 of upper surface, including the upper wing-coverts, bright 

 grass-green. Remiges brownish black, edged with the colour 

 of the back. Two central rectrices green, darker than the 

 back, other rectrices with the outer webs like the two central 

 ones, inner webs brownish black. Lores dull black. Throat 

 and chest verditer-blue, cheeks with blackish spots, chin 

 whitish with a creamy tinge, rest of under side apple-green ; 

 under tail-coverts verditcr-blue ; under wing-coverts whitish 



