3. ALSEONAX. 129 



p, q. Ad. sk. Port Blair, S. Anda- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



mans, Feb. 1874 



( Wiinherley) . 



r. Ad., A-. Juv. sk. Saig-on, Cochin Chiua. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



t. 5 ad. sk. Java. Purchased. 



II, i\ Ad. sk. N.W. Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [C.l. 



w. Ad., X. Juv. sk. Sarawak. Henry Everett, Esq. [CI. 



y. tS ad. sk. Kuching, Sarawak, Alfi-ed Everett, Esq. [C. j. 



Oct. 8, 1874. 



2. Alseonax adusta.* 



L'0ndul(5, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. p. 24, pi. 156; Sundev. Crit. om 



LevaiU. p. 42. 

 Muscicapa undidata (nee Gm.), Bmm. et Vteill. Utic. Meth. ii. p. 813 ; 



Gray, JIand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4838 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 3.")0. 

 Butalis adusta, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 318 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 318 ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1875, p. 75. 

 Muscicapa fuscula, Sundev. CEfo. K. Vef.-AJiad. 1850, p. 105 ; Grill, 



Zool. Anteckn. p. 10 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 148, no. 283 ; Firisch ^■ 



Hartl. Voff. Ostafr. p. 303, note; Ileuyl. Om. N.O.-Afr. pp. 436, 



cxiii. 

 Alseonax undulata, Cabanis, Miis. Ilein. Th. i. p. 52. 

 Butalis undulata, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. i. p. 42, no. 392. 



Adult male. Above ashy brown, the head obscurely mottled by 

 the dark brown centres to some of the feathers of the crown ; wings 

 dark brown, the lesser and median wing-coverts edged with ashy 

 brown like the back, the greater series tipped with dull white ; 

 primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; quills dark brown, with nar- 



* By some authors this species has been identified as the Gobe-mouche de 

 risk de France of Montbeillard, but it does not seem to me to be the same bird. 

 The synonymy would be as follows : — 



Gobe-mouche de I'isle de France, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. ]). 527. 

 Undidated Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syst. ii. pt. i. p. 333. 

 Muscicapa undulata, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 940. 



With the following species I am unacquainted : — 



Alseonax minima, 



Muscicapa minuta, Heugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 31. 



Muscicapa minima, Heugl. J. f. O. 18K2, p. 301 ; Hartl. u. Finsch, Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. p. 303, note; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 435, Taf. xviii. fig. 1. 

 Muscicapa fuscula, Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 245. 



Very small ; above greyish dusky ; forehead, lores, eyelids, and belly dull 

 dusky white, the sides of the neck, breast, flanks, and under wing-coverts shaded 

 with the same colour as the back ; quills internally towards the base dull bufl'y 

 white; wing-coverts and tail-coverts externally margined with pale rufous"; 

 bill short, depressed, dusky black, bluish tlc^'h-culour at the base ; feet bluish 

 black ; iris dusky. Total length 4" 3'", bill from from 3^'", wing 2" 4.^'", tail 

 1" 9'", tarsus 5.V". {Heuglin.) 



Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub believe that this species is not to be distinguished 

 from A. (tdus/a, but, as Dr. von Heuglin remarks, it appears to be much smaller. 



Hah. Abvssiuia. 



