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purplisli blue, with narrow inetiiUic green edgings on the outer webs; 

 three outer pairs same color, but barred with white on exposed portions, 

 "exactly as in the male. Throat, jugulum, and upi)er breast raw umber, 

 tinged with cinnamon, rather inclining to drab on the throat; sides of 

 neck metallic, green as on the back; lower breast russet, the color 

 sharply defined from the raw umber of upper breast and throat; abdo- 

 men and crissum geianium red, sonu^ of the russet feathers of breast 

 bordering the abdomen also tinged with tliis color; tlanks and tibia^ 

 slate; wing, as a whole, dull slaty black, a slight greenish reflection 

 a[)i)reciable on tertials and wing coverts; outer edges of second, third, 

 fourth, fifth, and sixtli primaries narrowly bordered with wliite for basal 

 half of exposed ])ortions, and to their insertions; secondaries, tertials, 

 and greater coverts of wing with narrow zigzag bars of white, the bars 

 0.08 to 0.10 of an inch apart; jirimary coverts ]>lain dull slate black; mid- 

 dle and lesser coverts dull black, broadly margined with metallic green, 

 the greater coverts and tertials narrowly edged with the same color. 

 Bases of secondaries, tertials, and fifth, sixth, and seventh ]»rimaries 

 white, making an irregularly-shai)ed spot an inch long, on the under sur- 

 faceof the wing; under wing coverts smoke gray. Wing, 4.90; tail, G.(JO; 

 tarsus, 0.G5; exposed culmen, 0.55; width of maxilla at base, O.GO inches. 

 "Feet white" (light brown in dried S|»ecimen); bill yellowish butt". 



Another female, immature, obtained in the same locality, at 7,000 

 feet altitude, June 10, 188S (Xo. 117974, U.S.N.M.), differs from the 

 one just described in the following particulars: Pileum Front's brown, 

 some of the feathers broadly edged with metallic green, as on the back; 

 lower breast russet, with indistinct buffy edgings to the feathers on the 

 sides, andoccasionalbuff feathers, tipped withdull black (theseare feath- 

 ers of the first plumage) ; abdomen i^ale geranium red, sparsely intermin- 

 gled with buff feathers near median line; under tail coverts cinnamon, 

 with faint mottlings or bars of greenish black (with metallic reflections) 

 on some of the feathers; bars on three outer rectrices irregular and 

 indistinct, the second and third pair Avith 1.25 inches of unbarred white at 

 terminal end. A few white si)ots on greater wing coverts, secondaries, 

 and tertials are signs of immaturity ; these spots are on the outer webs, 

 near the distal ends of the feathers. Maxilla blackish; mandible yel- 

 lowish horn color, tip black. Wing, 4.80 ; tail, G.50 ; tarsus, 0.G2 ; exposed 

 culmen, 0.55; width of maxilla at base, 0.55 inches. 



The two adult males in the collection agree with published descrip- 

 tions. They were obtained on Kilima-aSTjaro, altitude" G,000 feet, one on 

 August 8, 1888, and the other on October 9, 1889. Their measurements 

 are given below : 



Measurements of udidt males of Hetevotroijon rUtatnx. 



