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Two Other specimens, females, collected at the same place, 

 October 6, agree with the bird just described, but have a blackish 

 instead of white spot below the eyes, and the black of the back 

 extends up to the crown. One of these females also has a 

 number of dusky blackish feathers scattered on the sides of the 

 crown, and the ear-coverts are prouts brown. The iris and skin 

 around the eye are stated to be ' yellowish green ' on one of the 

 labels. 



This species seems to agree with P. cristatns in not having the 

 conspicuous wing band, formed by the white edges on wing- 

 coverts and secondaries, but I have no specimen of the latter with 

 which to carry the comparison farther. Dr. Sharpe ^ gives the 

 irides of P. cristaius as grey, while in the present species they 

 are yellow or yellowish green. 



9. Chloropeta similis, new species. 



Type. — No. 11S065, U. S. N. M. ; female, adult, Mount Kilimanjaro, 

 loooo feet, July 29, 18S8 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 



Upper surface of head, nape, sides of neck, back, scapulars, rump, upper- 

 tail-coverts, lesser wing-coverts, edges ot middle and greater coverts, 

 edges of primaries and of tail feathers, and bend of wing, uniform bro\\ n- 

 ish green (between olive and olive green), lighter on rump ; wing and 

 tail feathers dark brown; outermost pair of tail feathers edged with 

 yellowish green; under surface, including cheeks, under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries, bright lemon yellow, deeper on bend of wing ; line above lores 

 lemon yellow; sides of face, and ear-coverts, like upper parts; sides of 

 breast yellowish green; thighs yellow anteriorly, brownish posteriorly; 

 sides of body with a greenish tinge ; inner webs of wing feathers edged 

 with pale buffv ^ellow. Wing, 2.15 inches; tail, 2.20; tarsus, .90; 

 culnien, .59; first primary, .72. 



Four specimens of this bird were collected on Kilimanjaro, at altitudes of 

 8000 and loooo feet, during June and July, 188S. Its nearest relati\ e 

 appears to be C. tcftr/iia, but from this it differs in the wing formula, in 

 smaller size, and apparently in the color of the thighs and upper parts. 

 In C. similis the third primary is equal to the eighth, not to the seventh 

 (as in C. icteriiia), nor to the sixth (as in C. nataleiisis^. The fourth 

 primary in our bird is equal to the seventh. The first primary is rather 

 broad, and in one example is .89 inch long (exposed portion) ; in the type 

 it is comparatively short. 



' Ibis, 1S91, 6ui. 



