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interscapular region^ when the bird is held against the light, 

 blackish-green (instead of bluish-green). Moreover, there 

 is a narrow frontlet of glitteriug green feathers, which is 

 scarcely indicated in T. jelskii. 



Bill 20-22 mm. ; wing 53-54 ; tail 37. 



Ad. $ . Similar to the female of T. balzani, being of 

 equally small size, but the bill is somewhat longer. 



Bill 21 mm. ; wing 50 ; tail 32. 



Hab. Teffe, Rio Solimoens, Brazil. Two males and one 

 female were collected by Mr. W. Hoffmanns in May 1906. 

 Type in Tring Museum : $ ad. 19. v. 06 : collector's 

 No. 664. 



SCLATERIA SCHISTACBA CAURENSIS, Subsp. nOV. 



Ad. ^ . Exactly like S. s. saturata (Salv.) [cf. Nov. Zool. 

 xiii. p. 347] in coloration, but very much larger and with 

 a considerably longer and stronger bill. 



Bill 21 mm.; wing 84 ; tail 78. 



Ad. ? . Differs from the female of S. s. saturata in its 

 much larger size, much stronger bill, and in having the 

 upperparts of a less rufescent tinge. 



Bill 21 mm. ; wing 83 ; tail 74. 



Hab. Valley of the Caura River, Venezuela. One pair 

 collected by Mr. E. Andre in March 1898. Type in Tring 

 Museum : (J ad. : collector's No. 601. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant described the following new 

 species and subspecies procured during Mr. H. C. Robinson's 

 recent expedition to Gunong Tahan, the great mountain to 

 the north of Pahang, Malay Peninsula : — 



CiSSA ROBINSONI, Sp. U. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to C. minor, Cab., but the 

 innermost secondaries have wider white tips indistinctly 

 margined internally with blackish, and lack the strongly 

 marked subterminal black bars characteristic of C. minor 

 and other allies. From C. jeffreyi, Sharpe, it differs in 

 having a much longer tail and very much wider tips and 

 subterminal black bars to the outer tail-feathers ; the white 



