NO. 25 EIGHT NEW AFRICAN BULBULS MEAH 



darker upper parts. From placidus it may be readily distinguisl 

 by its more greenish gray upper parts and paler, less brownish, 

 head. 



Description of adult male and female.- I Fpper side of head, nape, 

 mantle, and rump grayish olive ; eye-ring, grayish white ; lores and 

 region below eye grayish olive mixed with grayish white; che 

 and ear-coverts grayish olive, the latter streaked with grayish 

 white; wings light brownish olive, the quills edged with Isabella 

 color; upper tail-coverts and tail snuff brown; chin and throat 

 lowish white; remainder of under parts, light olive-gray, the feath- 

 ers of the chest centrally streaked with more yellowish graj ; fh 

 olive-gray, axillars light olive-gray; under wing-coverts and inner 

 border of quills drab-gray. 



Measurements of type (adult male). Length of skin, 290; wing. 

 89, spurious primary, 38; tail, 93; culmen (chord), [6; height <<\ 

 bill at anterior border of nostril. 4.7; width of bill at anterior bor 

 der of nostril, 4 ; tarsus, 24. 



Average measurements of eight adult male topotypes. — v 

 88.5; tail, 86; culmen (chord), 16.25; tarsus, 23.31. 



Average measurements of three adult female topotypei 

 78.3; tail, 80; culmen (chord), 15; tarsus, 21.5. 



CHLOROCICHLA FLAVIVENTRIS MERUENSIS, new subspecies 

 Meru Yellow-bellied Bulbul 



Type-specimen.— Adult male. Cat. No. 244777, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected in the Meru Forest, on the Equator, near Mount Kenia, 

 in British East Africa, August [O, i<m~\ by Edgar A. Meal 

 (Original number, 23546.) 



Characters. — Most closely related to Chlorocichla ftcwiventrv 

 mombasce (Shelley), from which it differs in having the top of the 

 head much darker, the back more greenish olive, and the under \ 

 much yellower. 



Description of type (adult male). -Upper side "t" neck and bead, 

 including forehead and lores, sepia; eye-ring yellowish white: 

 cheeks and ear-coverts deep olive; mantle, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts greenish olive; upper wing-coverts and secondaries sepia, 

 bordered with greenish olive; primaries narrowly edged with j 

 lowish olive; tail-feathers sepia, the central pair more greenish and 

 obscurely cross-banded, the others externally broadly bordered with 

 greenish olive; chin, throat, middle of chest, abdomen, and crissum 



