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body, these parts being brownish buff instead of chestnut, 
the top of the head olive-brown instead of blackish, and the 
mantle paler. Iris brownish red ; bill brownish flesh ; legs 
and feet flesh-grey. Wing 74 mm. , tail 60, tarsus 98, 
Hab. North Ceylon. 
Type in the British Museum, ¢, Trincomalee, 16th Nov. 
Named in honour of M. G. Babault, of Paris, who sent 
specimens for identification. 
Mr. Cuartzs Cuvuss described the following new forms of 
South American birds :— 
Pseudochloris salvini, sp. nov. 
- Adult male. Allied to P. luteocephala (d’Orb. & Lafr.), 
but differs in having the fore part of the head brown with 
dull citron-yellow margins to the feathers, instead of bright 
yellow ; hinder crown, nape, back, and upper wing-coverts 
similar, instead of ash-grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
dark citron-yellow, instead of ash-grey; sides of face 
vinous-grey slightly tinged with yellow, instead of bright 
yellow; throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull lemon- 
yellow, instead of bright yellow ; sides of breast and sides of 
body vinous-grey, instead of ash-grey. 
Total length 123 mm., exposed ‘culmen 9, wing 73, 
tail 50, tarsus 19. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being brown 
above with earth-grey fringes to the feathers and only the 
slightest tinge of yellowish green on the upper tail-coverts ; 
under surface vinous-grey with very pale sulphur-yellow on 
the throat, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and outer edges of 
tail-feathers. Wing 73 mm. 
Hab. Northern Peru. 
The types of the male and female, which are in the © 
British Museum, were collected by Mr. O. T: Baron at 
Vina, Huamachuco, Northern Peru, at an altitude of 
5500 feet, March 1894. . 
