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Hab. Petti, Northern Nigeria, 25. viii. 04. 

 Obs. At a forroer meeting of the B. O. C. this species 

 was wrongly identified by me as A. rueppelli, Verreaux. 



The Hon, Walter Rothschild exhibited and described 

 an example of a new species of Crombec, which he proposed 

 to name 



Sylvietta neumanni, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Middle of the crown to the nape 

 brownish-ash grey, sides of the crown to the nape, as well as a 

 broad stripe through the lores and behind eyes, black ; super- 

 ciliary stripe in front of and above the eyes dull greenish ; 

 from the eyes to the sides of the neck white. Rest of the 

 upperparts olive-green. TJnderparts greenish-yellow, the 

 middle of the abdomen white and the sides of body tinged 

 with olive. Iris dark brown ; bill blackish, lower mandible 

 yellow; feet brownish. Culmen 14 mm. ; wing, ^ 65, ? 59; 

 tail 28 to 32; tarsus 24 to 26. 



Hab. Forest west of Lake Tanganyika, 2000 m. above 

 the sea. 



Type in the Tring Museum : S- No. 3137. 8. vii. 08. 

 Rudolf Grauer coll. 



Obs. The bill is rather stronger than is usual in the 

 species of the genus Sylvietta. 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited the second known adult 

 male example of Parotia berlepschi together with two young 

 males and compared them with adult and young males of 

 P. carolce. He remarked that the total number of specimens 

 of P. berlepschi known to exist in collections amounted to 

 five, two being in the museum of Count Berlepsch and the 

 remaining three in the Tring Museum. He pointed out that 

 P. berlepschi}x2idii\ie chin, cheeks, and throat brownish-black, 

 while in P. carolcR these parts were of a dirty buff colour ; 

 the raised circular crest was black with a slight edging of 

 white beginning behind the eye, not black broadly edged 

 with white and margined with gold behind the eye ; the hind- 



