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but on my return to Praslin and Make, and shooting several 

 specimens, I found that all the males had then assumed their 

 full plumage, which they evidently had not done when I shot 

 my first specimen on January 25th." 



He further adds : " The male constantly sings from the 

 top of a tree or from a dead and exposed branch. The song 

 is hurried, but not unlike that of a Goldfinch. The ordinary 

 call is one note quickly repeated three or four times. Mr. 

 Nevill had two nests brought to him, one containing a young 

 one almost fully fledged, the other an egg ; the nests were 

 exactly like others of the family which have been described 

 ("Ibis" 1865, p. 76). The egg is greenish-white, freckled, 

 suffused and blotched with umber-brown chiefly at the larger 

 end. It is 075 inch in length, and 0'41 in breadth." 



This species has been found by Professor Percival Wright 

 on Aride and Fregates islands, and Dr. Abbott collected seven 

 specimens in the same Archipelago at La Digue, Felicite, He 

 Cousin and Mahe. 



Cyanomitra humbloti. 



Cyanomitra huinbloti (Milne Edw. and Oust.), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 



68 (1896). 

 Cinnyris humbloti, Milne Edw. and Oust. C. E. ci. p. 220 (1885) ; iid. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool. 1887, p. 220 ; iid. N. Arch. Mus. (2) x. p. 245, 



pi. 4 (1888). Gt. Comoro Is. 



Adult Male. Above, olive yellow, with the forehead and crown metallic 

 coppery lilac ; wing dark brown with olive-yellow edges to the feathers ; 

 tail blue-black with distinctly paler dusky grey ends to the feathers ; head 

 in front of the eyes, cheeks, chin and throat metallic coppery lilac ; ear- 

 coverts and back of head and neck slightly more ashy olive than the back ; 

 under surface of body olive yellow passing into a rich narrow red collar ; 

 pectoral-tufts yellow ; under wing-coverts white partially washed with 

 yellow ; quills dusky blackish with partial white inner edges. Bill and 

 legs black ; iris dark brown. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-1, 

 tail 1-5, tarsus - 65. Great Comoro Is. (Humblot). 



