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Show 1887.] BIRDS F R O M T H E C A M E R O O N S . 123 wings are closed, uniform olive-green, with the primaries and tail dark brown, slightly washed on the edges of the feathers with yellowish olive. The shafts of the quills and tail-feathers are brown above and yellow beneath. Sides of the head huffish olive. Under surface of the body uniform sulphur-yellow, with a very slight greenish shade, paler on the throat and fading almost into white on the chin. A few feathers on the sides of the lower throat show faint signs of dark shaft-stripes, which shaft-stripes become more strongly marked on the flanks and under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts yellowish buff; under surface of the quills dark brown with pale yellowish shafts, and with from two to four large yellowish-buff spots on their inner webs, giving a barred appearance. Tail beneath more olive than above. Bill whitish, becoming dark towards the base ; legs and feet dusky brown. Total length 6*6 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-45, tail 2-8, tarsus 0 7. 6. (S, 6000 ft.-Perfectly similar in plumage to a. Total length 6*3 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 3*5, tail 2*7, tarsus 0'7. This bird, which is closely allied to P. ellioti from the Gaboon and Congo district, is rather smaller. Its chief character, which shows no variation in Mr. H. H. Johnston's two specimens, is the almost entire absence of markings on the underparts, which parts in P. ellioti are strongly striped with brownish black in both sexes. 2. INDICATOR VARIEGATUS, Less. Lndicator variegatus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 6, Cameroons; Sharpe in Dawson Rowley's Orn. Misc. i. p. 189. 2 , September, 7000 ft. 3. CORYTHAIX MERIANI, Riipp. Corythaix meriani, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 157 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 605, Cameroons ; Schalow, J. f. O. 1886, p. 37. c?, October, 5000 ft. 4. PSALIDOPROCNE FULIGINOSA, Sp. n. S, September, 9000 ft.-Entire plumage dark brown with no gloss. Quills, tail, and underparts slightly darker. Under wing-coverts brown, scarcely paler than the back. Bill black ; feet brown. Total length from tip of bill to tip of tail 5 inches, culmen 0'2, wing 4-25, tail 3'1, tarsus 0-35. 2 , September, 9000 ft.-Perfectly similar in plumage, with the outer' web of the first primary equally serrated. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0 2, wing 4-1, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-35. In this species the tail reaches about to the tips of the wings but not further, and is only moderately forked; length of centre feathers 2-3 and 2 inches, of outer feathers 3 and 2-7. It is probably nearest to P. petiti, from which it differs in the colour of the under wing-coverts, and the moderately forked tail not extending beyond the tips of the wings. |