ic8 Richmond, Nexv Birds from East Africa. \ \^^x\ 



thighs, axillaries, and under wing-coverts cinnamon butt; edge of wing 

 nile blue. " Bill and irides red." Wing, 2.0S inches; tail, 2.14; tarsus, 

 .58; culmen, .36. 



This species is closely related to E. a/igo/cnsis, but the entire 

 head is blue ; the brown of the upper surface and wings is darker, 

 and the abdomen and under tail-coverts are of a deeper color. 



A second specimen in the collection, also an adult male, was 

 collected on the plains east of Kilimanjaro, October 5, 1888. 



4. Cinnyris nectarinioides, new species. 



Tjpe. — No. 1 18227, ^- ^- N. M. ; male, adult, Plains east of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, October i, 1SS8, Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 



Entire head, neck, back, rump, and lesser wing-coverts metallic brassy 

 green ; upper tail-coverts metallic steel blue ; lower throat narrowly 

 edged with metallic deep blue; breast with a broad band of orange-ver- 

 milion ; yellow pectoral tufts present; abdomen, under tail-coverts, wings 

 and wing-coverts (except least), under wing-coverts, and tail, black, the 

 latter with the feathers (central ones particularly) edged with purple 

 basally, and with green on terminal half. Bill, feet, and tarsi black in 

 dried skin. Wing, 2.03 inches; tail 1.47; narrow central feathers, 2.25; 

 tarsus, .60; culmen, .70. 



Another adult male, obtained October 21, 1SS8, at Aruscha-wa-chini, 

 southwest of Kilimanjaro, measures : wing, 2.07 inches ; tail, 1.47 (central 

 pair of feathers narrow but not fully grown) ; culmen .72. 



This specimen agrees very closely with the type, but the greater wing- 

 coverts are narrowly edged with metallic green. 



This species seems to be related to C. mariquoisis, or to one of 

 its subspecies, but differs from all of them in the possession of 

 moderate yellow pectoral tufts, and in the very narrow long central 

 tail feathers, which project three quarters of an inch beyond the 

 rest of the tail. 



Captain Shelley has called attention to an occasional tendency 

 in C. mariquensis \.o the development of long central tail feathers, 

 but in the specimen observed by him the central feathers were 

 only 0.15 inch longer than the rest of the tail, while in the present 

 case they are fully 0.75 inch. 



5. Amydrus ? dubius, new species. 



Type. — No, 11S112, U. S. N. M. ; female, adult, Taveita, East Africa, 

 August 17, 1888; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 



