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The description is as follows :— 
Head (excepting the bare skin in front and below the eye), 
sides of the face, and neck brown, the centres of the feathers 
lighter than the webs, a long crest of brown feathers, paler 
near the shaft, both webs fringed with glossy purple; nape 
brown ; back dark olive, glossed with duil green. Lesser 
and median wing-coverts shining green with purplish-bronze 
reflections, greater wing-coverts dull purplish, primaries 
purplish brown ; rump glossy purplish blue with olive-green 
reflections; tail-feathers deep blue with strong bright purple 
reflections ; breast and under surface brown strongly washed 
on the belly and flanks with bronze-green reflections ; 
under tail-coverts deep olive-green washed with purple in 
certain lights. 
Bill 95 mm. from back of nasal aperture, tarsus 66, 
wing 328. 
Mr. Bannerman said he would like to express his indebted- 
ness to Dr. Gestro, of Genoa, for so kindly sending this 
valuable specimen to England. 
Mr. Bannerman exhibited and described the following 
new birds from Africa :— 
Cercococcyx mechowi wellsi, subsp. nov. 
Adult male. Differs from C. mechowi mechowi in having 
the upper parts slate-brown, a distinet dark bluish-grey 
taking the place of the copper colour so conspicuous in 
typical birds from Angola. The under surface is whitish or 
buffish-white closely banded with brownish-black, the bars 
much wider, and lying closer together than in C.m. mechowt. 
The under tail-coverts are generally unbarred or unspotted, 
but this, as in the typical form, is subject to variation. 
Type (in the British Museum). 
Bitye, R. Ja, Cameroon, 7. vii.09. G. L. Bates Coll., 
No. 3767. 
Iris dark brown, feet yellow, bill black above, greenish 
yellow beneath. 
The bird is named in recognition of Mr. Thomas Wells of 
the Bird Room (British Museum), who drew my attention 
to the new form. 
