4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 65 



South, altitude 4,000 feet, British East Africa, November 9, 191 1, by 

 Edmund Heller. (Original number, 418.) 



Subspecific characters. — Wings and back azurite blue; anterior 

 under parts, sides of face, neck, and upper back yellowish oil green, 

 the upper back but slightly mixed with blue-tipped feathers ;* upper 

 side of head blackish green-blue; upper surface of red portion of 

 wings carmine, lower surface aster purple ; upper side of tail blackish 

 azurite blue, brightening to azurite on outer webs of lateral rectrices ; 

 thighs and crissum black. 



Measurements of type (adult female). — Wing, 161; tail, 188; 

 culmen (chord), 20; tarsus, 37. 



Geographical range. — Known only from the type-locality — the 

 forested summit of Mount Mbololo, east of Mount Kilimanjaro, in 

 British East Africa. 



TURACUS HARTLAUBI CiERULESCENS, new subspecies 

 Mount Gargues Plantain-eater 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 217620, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected on Mount Gargues (North Creek), at 6,000 feet altitude, 

 British East Africa, August 28, 191 1, by Edmund Heller. (Original 

 number, 271.) 



Subspecific characters. — Wings and back antwerp blue; anterior 

 under parts, sides of face, neck, and upper back calla green, with 

 very little admixture of blue to the plumage of the upper back ; upper 

 side of head dark violet-blue ; upper surface of red portion of wings 

 spectrum red, lower surface amaranth purple ; upper side of tail 

 marine blue, paling to antwerp blue on outer webs of lateral rectrices ; 

 thighs and crissum dusky green-gray. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Wing, 167 ; tail, 187 ; culmen 

 (chord), 21; tarsus, 37.5. 



Average measurements of six adult male topotypes. — Wing, 168. 1 ; 

 tail, 185.9; culmen (chord), 22.5; tarsus, 38.2. 



Average measurements of five adult female topotypes. — Wing, 

 166; tail, 182.4; culmen (chord), 22.8; tarsus, 38.8. 



Geographical range. — Forested summit of Mount Gargues, from 

 6,000 to 7,100 feet (about twenty miles north of the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro River), in British East Africa. 



1 When the green filamentous tips of the feathering of the upper back are 

 worn away by attrition the subterminal blue becomes exposed. 



