Vor^XIVJ RicHMOMD, Nexv Birds from East Africa. l6l 



described, on the other hand, has only a sUght gloss on these 

 feathers. It is hardly probable the female of P. fischcri is more 

 brilliant in any portion of its plumage than the male. In size the 

 present species agrees very closely with the female of P. fischeri^ 

 but for that matter it is of nearly the same size as P. leucogaster, 

 with which it is only distantly related. It is structurally almost 

 identical with the last named bird, but lacks the brilliant metallic 

 color. Compared with a specimen of P. leucogaster the bills are 

 almost precisely alike ; the tails are very slightly forked ; the first 

 primary in femora/is, is slightly longer and more rounded at the 

 tip; the third and fourth primaries are longest in P. leucogaster; 

 the fourth and fifth in P./efnoralis ; the under tail-coverts are not 

 as long as in P. leucogaster. 



7. Laniarius abbotti, new species. 



Type. — No. 11916S, U. S. N. M.; male, adull, Mount Kilimanjaro, 5000 

 feet, October 18, 1889 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 



Back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, and upper sur- 

 face of wings and tail green (between oil and olive green), shafts of the 

 feathers black, the secondaries and tail very slightly more olive ; tail 

 feathers, except middle pair, very narrowly tipped — mostly on the inner 

 webs — with buffy yellow ; wing feathers, except exposed upper surface, 

 brownish black, the inner webs of all (including base of first primary) 

 broadly edged with straw yellow, less pronounced on the tertiaries, and 

 occupying only one-third the length of the second primary, one-half of 

 the third, and increasing on the inner ones ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts canary yellow. Top of head, nape, sides of neck, and upper back, 

 slate gray, passing somewhat gradually into the green of the back; fore- 

 head, lores, line above and below eyes, upper part of cheeks, and ear- 

 coverts, black, passing into the gray of sides of neck, but elsewhere 

 sharply contrasted with adjacent colors; throat, lower part of cheeks, 

 chest, and breast, bright orpiment orange (the feathers bright yellow 

 below the surface), passing into greenish canary yellow on the abdomen ; 

 under tail-coverts greenish-yellow like abdomen; sides of body darker; 

 thighs greenish, like back. Length (skin), about 7.30 inches; wing, 

 3.50; tail, 3.42 ; tarsus, .97 ; first primary, from insertion, 1.09. Bill black; 

 feet brownish (in skin) ; " irides red." The bill is injured by shot and 

 measurements cannot be given ; the under mandible, however, measures 

 •40 inch from the mental apex. The feet and tarsi are considerablv 

 smaller than those of the few species of Laniarius (in its broad sense) 

 now before me, and the first primary is decidedly shorter. 



