NO. Mil. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 



913 



respectively. In all these specimens, the t'einale inclu<led. tlie upper 

 tail-coverts are glossy black, not gray, as given by C aptain Shelley;" 

 and the rump has large concealed s]5ots of white. In one of the males 

 the white nuchal spot is very indistinct. In the female the rufous of 

 the breast is quite deep in color, though overlaid to some extent b}^ 

 white unworn tips of the feathers, and is much darker than that of 

 the throat, from which it is separated medially by a pure white spot 

 some 10 millimeters wide, both of which are characters that look 

 toward B((fi>< (liuiorpha Shelley,* and, together with what Doctor 

 Reichenow has pointed out,'" indicate that />. diniorpha^ if really 

 distinct from B. mmta, is but a subspecies, and should stand as Batis 

 III l.i'ta diiiiovplia. 



It will be noted by reference to the above-given dates of collection 

 that Doctor Abbott's specimens of Bath mixta were the tirst of the 

 species taken; and, furthermore, with the exception of the two 

 obtained by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, from which the species was 

 described by Captain Shelley," they seem to be the only ones thus far 

 known. Our three specimens exhibit the following measurements: 



PLATYSTEIRA CRYPTOLEUCA, new species. 



Ohm'H. t<p. — Like Phitystdra peltata^ but cervix with a large con- 

 cealed patch of pure white, and the feathers of the rump entirely with- 

 out white markings. 



ZMs^77>?^/o/?.— Type, adult male. Cat. No. 118133, U.S.N.M.; Useri 

 River, plains of Mount Kilimanjaro, August 29, 1888; Dr. ^^^ L. 

 Abbott. Pileum, cervix, and upper tail-coverts black with a steel- 

 green gloss; the cervix with bases of its feathers pure white, forming 

 a large concealed patch; l)ackand rump greenish slate color with con- 

 siderable metallic gloss, especiall}" on the former, the latter without 

 (Mther white conc(»aled spots or white tips on the feathers; tail blackish 

 with steel green metallic sheen, the feathers margined externally with 

 (grayish and tipped ever so slightly with whitish; wings ])lackish ])rown, 

 the lesser and median coverts, together with broad margins of greater 

 coverts and tertials, black wdth metallic green gloss like the crown. 



«Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 359. 



f> Pachi/jirora dimorpha >Shelley, Ibis, 189.S, ]>. 18 (Milaiiji Plateau, Nyassa Lan<l, 

 eastern Africa). 



<■ Vcigel Africas, II, 1903, pp. 478-479. 



