68 A LETTER FROM MR. W. B. PRYER. [Feb. 17, 



IX.) of a Parrot of the genus Chrysotis, now living in the Society's 

 Gardens, which appears to belong to an undescribed species. It was 

 purchased of one of the London dealers in February 1879, and was 

 originally considered an immature example of Chrysotis dufres- 

 niana, to which species it is most nearly allied. But it has remained 

 without material change since its arrival, and a closer examination 

 leads me to believe tliat it is not an immature bird. I therefore 

 propose to describe it as follows : — 



Chrysotis cceligena. (Plate IX.) 



Clare viridis, fronte flavida, facie tota utrinque cyaneo lavata ; 

 specula atari aurantiaco ; cauda apice Jlavicante ; crassitie 

 2)aulo minore quam in C. dufresniana. 



In Vivario See. Zool. Lond. 



Ohs. Similis C. dufresniance, sed genis ceeruleis, fronte non rubra, 

 speculo alari flavo et cauda nuUo modo rubra distiuguenda. 



The bird described by Dr. Finsch (Papag. ii. p. 532) as the 

 young of C. dufresniana is probably this species. 



Singularly enough I have just received (this morning, Feb. 17th) 

 a box of skins for examination from Mr. G. N. Lawrence of New 

 York, amongst which is a single example of this Parrot, obtained 

 "on the Essequibo river in the winter of 1875-76, by Mr. A. H. 

 Alexander, of West Hoboken, New Jersey," Mr, Lawrence gives 

 to it the name " coeliffena" in his paper (to be published in 'The 

 Ibis'), which I adopt with pleasure instead of the name I had in- 

 tended to propose for it. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to the fact that Colohus palliatus, 

 Peters, Monatsb. Ak. Berlin, 1868, p. 637 (recently figured, Monatsb. 

 1879, p. 830, tab. iv. a), of which he exhibited a specimen, seemed 

 to be identical with Colobus angolensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 246. Mr. Sclater had compared the type of his C. angolensis, 

 a flat skin now in the British Museum, with a fine adult specimen 

 from the Pangani river-valley on the Zanzibar coast, in the same 

 collection lately received from Dr. Kirk, which was doubtless Colobus 

 palliatus of Peters, and had found them to agree in nearly every 

 respect, except that the Zanzibar example showed rather more white 

 on the throat. The skin of Colobus angolensis, which was brought 

 by Mr. Monteiro from Angola, might have travelled a long way 

 from the interior of the continent ; but it was certainly singular to 

 find it identical with a species of the eastern coast. 



The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed 

 to him by Mr. W. B. Pryer, dated Elopura, Bay of Sandakan, 

 Borneo, 27th October, 1879:— 



"I nearly always have some half dozen different birds and animals 

 about the house, and should be glad to send them to Singapore, on 

 account of the Society, if you have any one there to receive and forward 

 them. Amongst the specimens Monkeys take a leading place ; but 

 I presume these are not particularly required ; the two species of 



