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Drs. O. Finsch and A. B. Meyer on 
tmcta, subtus pallidiore ; rostro et pedibus nigris ; iride 
cserulea: long. tot. circa 540-550, al. 158-160, cand. 
320, rostr. 73, tars. 42 millim. 
Of this species we have only a female, which, however, is 
easily distinguished from the female of the allied E. speciosus 
by its more olive-coloured upper surface, by the want of the 
rusty-red colour on the wings, by the brighter reddish brown 
of the head, which is also extended on to the nape, by the 
scale-like appearance of the head, and, lastly, by the fine 
undulations of the whole under surface. The bright cross 
stripes are more olive-yellow than in E. speciosus ; the under 
surface of the wings is uniform blackish grey with scarcely 
brighter margins instead of the reddish-brown inner webs of 
E. speciosus, and the tail has no reddish tinge. The bill is 
but slightly longer than in E. speciosus, but considerably 
more compressed and less curved. 
That this is not the unknown female of E. ellioti, Ward, 
is evident from the length of the bill, which in E. ellioti is 
50 millim. This is besides unlikely on other grounds. In 
E. speciosus the bill is of about the same length in both 
sexes. It is evident that the unknown male of E. meyeri 
will probably be found to differ in not unimportant points 
from E. speciosus. 
9. Drepanornis cervinicauda, Sclater. 
D. albertisi similis, sed minor et pallidior. 
The difference in the general size of the two species is not 
very considerable, but the measurements of the bill and tail 
are sufficiently different to make their constant variations of 
importance when accompanied by appreciable diversities in 
colour. 
The whole upper surface in D. cervinicauda is brighter, 
the back is more of a yellow-olive instead of brownish olive, 
as in D. albertisi ; the lower back and rump rusty yellow 
instead of rusty red, the tail pale yellow instead of rusty 
yellow; the edgings of the inner webs of the tertiaries are 
like the tail, whilst in D. albertisi the tail is much darker. 
The reddish-blue sheen of the head, which is so apparent in 
D. albertisi, is altogether, or almost altogether, wanting in 
