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spotted with white ; a broad white eyebrow, extending from the dark 
brown patch before the eye above the ear-coverts to the sides of the neck ; 
ear-coverts more or less varied with white and brown ; malar streak like 
the top of the head, whitish at the point projecting over the maxilla ; chin 
white streaked with black ; throat yellowish white, with a single row of 
round black spots between the malar streaks, but becoming more 
numerous on the lower part ; breast more yellowish and the spots larger, 
the latter becoming fewer on the lower breast and flanks, and on the 
latter more in the form of bands ; abdomen immaculate and under 
tail-coverts only slightly spotted ; thighs varied with dark grey and 
brown. First and second primaries dark brown with two white marks 
at the base of the outer web ; remaining primaries olive yellowish for the 
basal half of the outer web, banded more or less with pale yellowish, 
and with whitish tips in all but the third, the inner webs in all brown 
and the shafts yellow ; secondaries like the primaries, but the shafts 
darker, the outer webs olive yellowish for a greater extent and the 
innermost banded across both webs and the bands more whitish ; 
wing-coverts like the innermost secondaries for the greater part. Under 
wing-coverts yellowish white, more or less spotted with dark brown. 
Type of T.M. No. 4717 ; ex coll. Kirby and Roberts, Villa Pereira, 
Boror, P.E. Africa, 15.VI.08. (Iris, scarlet ; bill, dark brown, gonys pale 
yellow ; legs and feet, olive green. Length, 216 mm. — K- & R.) Wing, 
117 ; tail, 68 ; tars., 24 ; culm., 25 mm. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 4718 ; same collection and locality (mate of 
foregoing). Length, 202 ; wing, 115 ; tail, 65 ; tars., 22 ; culm., 23 mm. 
This differs from the <$ in having the forehead and crown black 
with a roundish white or yellowish spot near the tip of each feather, the 
malar streak black, with the margins and tips of the feathers white, and 
more spots on the upper throat. 
Also another $ from the same locality which measures : length, 203 ; 
wing, 113 ; tail, 71 ; tars., 22 ; culm., 23 mm. 
Irrisor erythrorhynchus brevirostris , subsp. nov. 
Closely resembles I. erythrorhynchus viridis , from which it is dis- 
tinguished by its stouter and straighter bill, the crown and throat not so 
clearly glossed with blue, the back, scapulars, crop, and breast more glossed 
with bronze, and the primary coverts broadly tipped with white ; tail also 
more bronze coloured. 
Head metallic green, blue in some lights, the base of the metallic 
portion of each feather with a bronzy sheen ; back and sides of neck, 
upper back, crop, and breast green, glossed with bronze, more pronounced 
on the scapulars ; lower back and rump dark brown, faintly glossed with 
bronze violet ; upper tail-coverts and tail bronze violet. Edge of wing, 
lesser and median wing-coverts violet ; greater wing-coverts dull blue ; 
primary coverts dull greenish, with broad white tips ; primaries and 
secondaries greenish, glossed in parts with violet, especially on the inner- 
most secondaries, and crossed by a white bar on the inner web of the first 
three and on both webs of the remainder. Throat greenish metallic blue. 
Abdominal region dark brown, glossed with blue, brightest on the thighs. 
Two outermost pairs of tail-feathers crossed by a white mark on each web, 
on the outer web farther from the tip than the inner ; next pair with a 
white mark on the outer web only ; rest of the tail-feathers uniform. 
Type of <$ T.M. No. 4653 ; ex coll. Kirby and Roberts, Villa Pereira, 
Boror, P. E. Africa, 1.VI.08, (Iris, dusky ; bill and legs, red ; claws, 
