ANNALS 
MEDEDELINGEN 
OF I HE VAN I1ET 
T ransvaal Museum. 
Vol. 6. Part 1. 
ffc OCT 3 A 1917 V 
DESCRIPTIONS OF A NEW SPECIES AND GENUS OF FLYCATCHERS 
FROM EAST AFRICA AND TWO NEW SUBSPECIES OF 
GUINEA FOWLS FROM SOUTH AFRICA, 
By Austin Roberts. 
While on active service in German East Africa, I was fortunate in 
procuring, together with a few other birds, a single specimen of a fly- 
catcher which proves to represent an undescribed species and genus, 
which I propose to name : 
CHLGROPETELLA gen. nov. 
Diagnosis: Apparently most closely allied to Chloropeta , but differing 
therefrom in its much smaller size, the bill narrower and more de 
curved apically, the greater number of rictal bristles and in habits and 
habitat. The rictal bristles are comparatively longer and nasal bristles 
are conspicuous all along the base of the forehead, where they are almost 
absent and certainly fewer in number in Chloropeta. The tail is 
rounded, consists of ten feathers, and is about equal to the wing in 
length. The wing formula is : 1st primary about 55% of the length of the 
second ; 2nd rather shorter than the eighth ; 3rd and 6th about equal ; 
4th and 5th about equal and longest. 
OHLORGPETELLA SUAHELICA spec. nov. 
Description : upper parts in general olive yellow, rather darker sub 
terminally on the tail, and the external margins and base of the tail 
rather clearer yellow | primaries and secondaries brown, the first and 
second primaries uniform, the third narrowly and the remainder broadly 
