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plain green without any dusky mark below the lower wiug- 

 bar. The axillaries and under wing-coverts are paler 

 yellow ; the uuderparts are much suffused with tawny 

 yellow ; the flanks are rather dark tawny olive ; the bill 

 is a little longer and narrower. 



Upper mandible dark purplish-brown, lower mandible 

 dusky-yellowish with dark point; legs green (April). 



Bill brown, base of lower mandible orange-flesh ; legs 

 brown (October). 



Total length 107 mm. ; wing 52, 53, 53, 53*5, 54 mm. 



2nd primary equals 8th or between 8th and 9th. 



Ttjpe. S . Mengtz, 16 Oct., 1920. 



Acanthopneuste trochiloides claudise, subsp. nov. 



Near Acanthopneuste t. assamens-is Hart. {A. t. harterti 

 S. Baker), but larger and brighter, markings on bead very 

 distinct. The underparts are on the whole pale, and in all 

 the 49 examples examined, with the exception of one or two, 

 the under tail-coverts are of a rather bright greenish-yellow. 

 The wing-bars are broad and bright, the white edging and 

 tips of the two outer pairs of rectrices are variable, ranging 

 from very narrow to broad, but never extending over the 

 whole inner web. The upper parts and wing-surface 

 agree with A. t./okiensis Hartert, but the underparts of the 

 latter bird are of a rather bright greenish-yellow. Wing- 

 formula very variable : — One example has the 2nd primary 

 equal to the 7th, ten have it between the 7th and 8th, nineteen 

 equal to the 8th, ten between the 8th and 9th, six equal to 

 the 9th, one between the 9th and 10th, and two equal to the 

 10th. Wing, c^, 58-66-5 mm., ? 57-62'5 mm., average of 

 36 males 62"6 mm., of 12 females 59 nun. 



Types, c? , Mengtz, 15 Oct., 1920. 

 ? , „ 14 Oct., 1920. 



Named in honour of Mrs. Hartert. 



Acanthopneuste trochiloides disturhans, subsp. nov. 

 Near A. t. daudice, but much smaller, the underparts a 

 little brighter and greener (in four out of live examples), 



