212 PARISOMA.. 



tail uniform darker brown ; a few of the primaries with very partial ashy 

 white edges ; feathers in front of the eyes jet black ; remainder of the head, 

 throat, chest and thighs brown, scarcely paler than the back ; chin and front 

 of cheeks slightly whiter, and a shade of grey on the centre of the chest ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts chestnut ; under surface of wings dark 

 brown with the under wing-coverts paler and partially mottled with rufous 

 and black, inner edges of the quills white. " Iris reddish brown, bill black, 

 legs dark brown " (Lord Lovat). Total length 7'1 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 3-5, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-05. $ Shoa (Antinori). 



G-aliuier's White-fronted Hill Tit inhabits the Abyssinian 

 district. 



Between Somaliland and Shoa Lord Lovat collected a male 

 and female at Chelunco and Baroma in about 9° N. lat. and 

 east of 40° B. long. 



In Shoa Riippell obtained the type of his Parisoma frontale, 

 and in the British Museum there are one of his specimens 

 and one of Harris's from this same country. According to 

 Antinori and Ragazzi the species is not rare in this part 

 of Africa, where its loud clear voice, which somewhat 

 resembles that of our Nightingale, betrays its presence while 

 hidden in the thick foliage of the large forests. 



From Abyssinia came the type of the species, as well as 

 the type of Grateropus melodus, Heugl. According to von 

 Heuglin it frequents, in pairs, the thick bush and forests 

 of Semien, Bergemeder, Wogara, AVadla, Gala country, and 

 Shoa, at elevations varying from 8,000 to 12,000 feet. It is a 

 resident species, inhabiting the valleys and mountains, where 

 the ring of its loud metallic voice may be heard, morning and 

 night, at a considerable distance, its " dui-dui-dui-di-di-di " 

 being answered back by the female's Reed- Warbler-like note. 

 They feed mostly upon berries. 



Genus II. PABISOMA. 



Bill moderate, slightly widened at the base ; nostril-groove entirely 

 hidden by the stiff bristly feathers of the forehead, which are directed 



