194 Mr. M. A. C. Hinton on a 
Pseudochloris roraime, sp. n. 
Adult male. Crown of head dark citron-yellow, with an 
indication of dark shaft-lines to the feathers ; wings and back 
blackish brown with olive-grey margins to the feathers ; 
rump and upper tail-coverts dark olive-green ; tail blackish 
brown fringed with olive-green; the two outer feathers on 
each side white on the inner webs at the tips; sides of face 
tawny yellow; throat, breast, and abdomen dull yellow, 
darker on the sides of the body and paler on the under tail- 
coverts ; under wing-coverts buff; under surface of flight- 
quills dark brown; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper 
surface, but paler brown, 
Total length 116 mm.; exposed culmen 8; wing 63; 
tail 44. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being blackish 
on the upper surface, with pale fringes to the feathers ; 
throat, breast, and sides of body fawn-brown, with dark shaft- 
lines to the feathers, becoming whitish yellow on the lower 
abdomen and under tail-coverts. Wing 58 mm. 
Hab. Mount Roraima, British Guiana. 
The types, which are in the British Museum, were collected 
by the late Henry Whitely at Mount Roraima, November 20, 
1883. Salvin-Godman Collection. 
This species was quoted by Brabourne and Chubb in their 
‘ List of the Birds of South America’ as Pseudochloris brownt 
(Bangs), but it differs from that species, however, in its 
smaller size and much duller coloration. There is a series of 
twelve specimens of this species in the British Museum, all 
of which are quite constant in character. 
XXIV.—Paraonyx, a new Genus of Clawless Otter discovered 
by Capt. J. HE. Philipps, M.C., in Central Africa. By 
Martin A. C. HIntTon. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
DurinG the past year Captain J. E. Philipps, M.C., the 
District Commissioner at Kigezi, British Ruanda, has dili- 
gently collected the larger mammals of his district, and 
has presented many valuable specimens to the British 
Museum. Among his most recent donations are two females 
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