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Bias musicus (Yieill.), Gaboon. Collected by Du Chaillu. 

 Artomyias fuliginosa (Verr.), Gaboon. Du Chaillu. 

 Artomyias ussheri Sharpe. 



One specimen collected by McDowell on St. Paul River, Siberia, 

 is referred to this species. The under parts are nearly uniform ashy 

 brown. 



Platystira cyanea (Mull.), West Africa. 

 Platystira peltata Sundew, Zanzibar. 

 Muscicapa grizola Linn., Europe and Africa. 



They include one from Cape of Good Hope and several from 

 Du Chaillu 's collection on Camma River. 

 Muscicapa griseisticta (Swinh.), Luzon. 

 Muscicapa lugens (Hartl.) 



Two specimens, male and young, types of M. Cassini Heine 

 collected by Du Chaillu on the Camma River, W. Africa. These 

 birds evidently belong to M. lugens as suggested by Mr. Sharpe 

 (Catalogue of Birds, vol. IX, p. 156). The under wing coverts 

 are cinereous, some of them more or less tipj^ed with white. The 

 young bird is spotted above with rufous and has the tail feathers all 

 tipped with white. 



Muscicapa atricapilla Linn., Europe Algiers, Morocco, etc. 

 Muscicapa collaris Bechst., Europe. 

 Muscicapa parva Bechst. 



A series from Europe and also two collected by Capt. Boys 

 in India which seem to belong here and not to the following species ; 

 indeed it seems probable that the two forms shade into one another 

 where their limits approach. 

 Muscicapa albicilla Pall., India. 

 Petroica leggii Sharpe (= P. multicolor of Gould's Birds of 



Australia). A fine series from S. and W. Australia, Tasmania 



and Kangaroo Island from the Gould collection. 

 Petroica phoexicea Gould, Types of the species. S. Australia 



and Tasmania. 

 Petroica multicolor (Gm.), (= P. erythrogaster of Gould's 



work), Norfolk Island. Gould col. 

 Petroica rhodinogastra (Drap.), Tasmania and S. Australia. 



Gould col. 

 Petroica rosea Gould. Types of the species. New South Wales. 

 Petroica goodenovii (Vig. and Horsf.), S. and W. Australia. 



Gould collection. I think it is doubtful whether P. ramsayi 



