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margined with olive yellow for the basal two-thirds. Entire under parts 
of the body, the throat and the chin “ primuline yellow” (Ridgway), 
sides of the face rather more olive, and the under wing coverts rather 
paler, yellow ; under surface of the wings brown, with broad whitish 
inner margins; under surface of tail feathers olive yellow, the inner 
margins and tips of the outer ones clearer yellow. “Iris brown; bill 
light brown above, pale horn brown below ; legs light brown, feet rather 
paler.” Length of wing 47 mm., tail 47, tarsus 15, culmen 11, breadth 
of bill at the base 6. 
The type, which is in the Transvaal Museum collection, is a female 
taken on 27th January, 1917, at Myiai, an outpost situated forty miles 
south-west of Dar-es-Salaam on the Maneromango road and about twelve 
miles from that village. 
Habits: It was the habits and habitat of this bird which first led 
me to think that it might prove to be a novelty, and after several 
attempts to secure a specimen it was only on the day of my departure 
that I succeeded. On the first occasion on which I observed these 
birds, three were sitting affectionately side by side on a twig not six 
feet above my head in a pathway through the bush ; they remained there 
for some time while I noted how different they appeared to be from any 
bird which I had previously met with or read about ; upon my disturbing 
them to obtain another view, they hopped about amongst the branches 
a little farther away, but regarded me more with curiosity than fear. 
They appeared to be rather uncommon, as I saw them again only upon 
about five or six occasions and then only when I had no means of secur- 
ing a specimen, except on the last, when I brought down one with a 
catapult and fine shot. They were noted to be lively little birds, always 
found in small parties of three or four, usually sitting very quietly 
until disturbed, whereupon they would flit about, uttering a sharp twit- 
tering note which might almost be described as a song ; at other times, 
when in search of insects, they were remarkably quick in flitting up and 
down and about amongst the branches of the trees in the tangled scrub. 
But for their brown eyes and active manner when in movement, they 
might be mistaken for a species of Zosterops. 
Chloropeta natalensis, the genotype and only species of the genus 
with which I have compared this new bird, has quite different habits. 
Very little has been recorded of it, and I have myself only seen it on a 
few rare occasions, some ten years ago, in Natal. It frequents the 
coarse herbage found along the streams and valleys below and on the 
sides of mountains, and has the habits of a warbler rather than of a fly- 
catcher ; I have never seen more than one bird at a time, and it always 
proved to be very shy and upon being alarmed immediately took refuge 
in the tangled vegetation. The northern subspecies of Chloropeta nata- 
lensis do not differ appreciably in size or habits from the typical sub- 
species. 
NUMIDA PAPILLOSA DAMARENSIS subsp. nov. 
Differs from the typical Numida papillosa Rchw. in having the horn 
very narrow from the base to the tip, resembling a bent finger in shape. 
All figures of N. papillosa show that the typical form has the horn 
broad at the base and narrowing upwards, whereas in the present new 
subspecies the horn is practically the same thickness for the whole 
length. N. papillosa transvaalensis Neum. (Orn. Monatsb. 1899, p. 20) 
differs in having the papillae less developed than in the typical aufe 
species, and the horn much curved backwards. 
