Vol. XIV 
1897 RicHMOND, Mew Birds from East Africa. 163 
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 /. cristatus 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. cristatus as grey, while in the present species they 
are yellow or yellowish green. 
g. Chloropeta similis, new species. 
Type. — No. 118065, U. S. N. M.; female, adult, Mount Kilimanjaro, 
10000 feet, July 29, 1888; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 
Upper surface of head, nape, sides of neck, back, scapulars, rump, upper- 
tail-coverts, lesser wing-coverts, edges of middle and greater coverts, 
edges of primaries and of tail feathers, and bend of wing, uniform brown- 
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 surtace, 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 buffy yellow. Wing, 2.15 inches; tail, 2.20; tarsus, .go; 
culmen, .59; first primary, .72. 
Four specimens of this bird were collected on Kilimanjaro, at altitudes of 
Sooo and 10000 feet, during June and July, 1888. Its nearest relative 
appears to be C. ¢cferéua, 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. s¢mzt’s the third primary is equal to the eighth, not to the seventh 
(asin C. écferéna), nor to the sixth (as in C. xatalensis). 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. 
'Tbis, 1891, 601. 
