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green at base, lores and sides of face greenish blue, sinciput 

 and nape grass-green. Scapulars and back green with a 

 slight brownish tinge; rump light greenish brown. Wings 

 outwardly bright green, inner webs of remiges blackish from 

 above, pale bluish from below. Upper wing-coverts grass- 

 green, slightly tinged with blue near the bend of the wing. 

 Rectrices bright green from above, bluish from below, tipped 

 with dull black for about 12 to 14 mm., the central pair 

 quite green except the shaft and spatules, which are dull 

 black. Entire underside uniform yellowish green. Bill (in 

 skin) whitish with leaden-grey base ; feet dark grey. Wing 

 152 to 157, tail about 66, with lengthened central pair 

 120 to 140, culmen from cere 22, metatarsus 15 mm. One 

 specimen marked " ? " is similar to the male. 



Hob. Mount Apo, South Mindanao, 3000 feet. (3 speci- 

 mens.) 



Named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. John Waterstradt. 



Type in the Tring Museum, no. 77 : October 1903. 



The brownish rump, less amount of blue on the forehead, 

 and smaller size distinguish this bird easily from Prioniturus 

 discurus, which occurs also on Mindanao, but probably at 

 lower altitudes. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited some new birds from Angola 

 and Mindanao which he described as follows : — 



Parmoptila ansorgei, n. sp. 



<$ ad. Forehead red, rest of upper surface dull olive-brown 

 with buffy- brown shaft-lines. Remiges dark brown, outer 

 webs narrowly margined with dull rufous-brown. Tail dark 

 olive-brown. Throat and sides of head bright cinnamon ; 

 rest of under surface creamy buff, each feather with wide 

 olive-grey zigzag-shaped margins, those of the flanks with 

 crescentic marks and interrupted cross-bars of the same 

 colour. " Bill black. Iris blood-red ; feet pale flesh-colour." 



? ad. Like the male, but the forehead light brown, not 

 red. Wing, S 52, ? 51-7; tail 40, bill 10, metatarsus 

 15 mm. 



