358 Mr. Boyd Alexander on the 



black patches almost confined to their outer wehs ; quills 

 black, with outer webs and ends golden green ; secondaries 

 of a bluer shade towards their centre and with a broad black 

 velvet band in certain lights ; tail-feathers velvety bluish 

 black, with their ends greenish steel-blue and with obsolete 

 narrow blue bars. Sides of forehead velvety black ; sides of 

 head frizzled greenish steel-blue, behind which is a patch of 

 coppery bronze ; chin and throat violet-tinted steel-blue; 

 remainder of under parts bluish golden green, becoming 

 golden green on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; under 

 surface of wing black, with the coverts metallic steel-blue. 



Total length 11'5 inches, culmen l'l, wing 6, tail 4*7, 

 tarsus 1*2. 



Type. Moka, Dec. 16, 1902. 



Rare, and only met with in the southern portion of the 

 island. 



This species is allied to L. splendidus, but differs chiefly in 

 having no trace of reddish purple on the under parts. 



Named after Mr. Charles Chubb, of the South Kensington 

 Museum. 



29. Amydrus elgonensis. 



Amydrus elgonensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 242 (Mt. Elgon, 

 East Africa). 



a. Ad. ? . Moka, Dec. 8, 1902. 



b. Ad. <$ . Moka, Dec. 9, 1902. 



c. Imm. $ . Pico Joaquin, Dec. 10, 1902. 



d. Ad. $ . Pico Joaquin, Dec. 11, 1902. 



e. Ad. $ . Pico Joaquin, Dec. 11, 1902. 

 /. Imm. $ . Pico Joaquin, Dec. 11, 1902. 

 g. Ad. £. Moka, Dec. 14, 1902. 

 Confined to the southern portion of the island. 



Our birds agree with the type of A. elgonensis (from Mount 

 Elgon) in the British Museum. 



I think that Dr. Sharpe was wrong in reuniting this species 

 to A. walleri Shelley, from which it differs in being smaller 

 and in having a more slender bill and a metallic-purple shade 

 on the throat and sides of neck and wing-coverts, instead of a 

 metallic green. 



