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(Vieill.), but the cheeks and sides of the face are dark grey 

 like the crown. Iris dark brown ; bill red and black ; feet 

 dark brown. 



Total length ca. 5*3 inches ; wing 2"8 ; tail 2*0 ; tarsus 0"88. 



Hah. 20 miles north of Fort Beni^, Western Ruwenzori, 

 3000 ft., 11th August, 1906. 



A single adult female specimen was procured by Mr. 

 Douglas Carruthers in the thick forest. 



Tarsiger ruwenzorii, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Most nearly allied to T. johnstoni 

 (Shelley), which they resemble in having the outer webs of 

 the secondary-quills margined with olive, but easily dis- 

 tinguished by the conspicuous orange-yellow rump and 

 upper tail-coverts, and by having the yellow on the second 

 pair of tail-feathers confined to the basal half of the outer 

 web. Iris dark hazel ; bill black ; feet olive-brown or 

 greenish-brown. 



(J. Total length ca. 6*0 inches; wing 3*2; tail 2'7 ; 

 tarsus 1*0. 



?. Total length ca. 5'6 inches; wing 2"9-3-0_, tail 2'4; 

 tarsus 0'95. 



Hab. East Ruwenzori, 6000-9000 ft., Jan. and Feb. 1906. 



Chloropeta gracilirostris, sp. n. 



Male immature. Differs from all known species of Chloro- 

 peta in its longer and more slender bill. It is most nearly 

 allied to C. kenya, Sharpe, from which it differs principally 

 in its somewhat darker olive upperparts and the absence of 

 any trace of a superciliary stripe. 



The type-specimen, which appears to be in immature 

 plumage, has the edges of the flight- and tail-feathers, as 

 well as the upper tail-coverts, dull reddish-brown, and the 

 lower back, sides, and flanks washed with the same colour. 



Iris dark reddish-brown ; bill brown ; feet black. 



Total length ca. 5*4 inches ; culmen 0-63, width at base 

 of nostrils 0*2 ; wing 2*5; tail 2'4; tarsus 1"0. 



Hab. South-eastern slopes of Euwenzori, 3400 ft., 12th 

 June, 1906. 



