130 MUSCICAPIDiE. 



row edgiiigs of ashy brown, the secondaries margined with dull 

 whitish ; tail brown, with obscure undulations under certain lights, 

 the feathers edged with lighter brown near the base ; lores whitish, 

 extending backwards above the eye, and forming an ill-defined eye- 

 brow ; round the eye a ring of whitish feathers ; fore part of cheeks 

 ashy brown, mottled with whitish tips to the feathers ; ear-coverts 

 uniform ashy brown ; throat pure white, with slight ashy mottling 

 on the chin where the bases show through ; breast and sides of 

 body ashy brown, with a slight fulvous tinge, the chest streaked 

 with fulvous, the feathers being edged with the latter colour ; belly 

 and under tail-coverts white ; thighs brown ; under wing-coverts 

 light tawny buff, with ashy brown bases to the feathers ; lower 

 surface of the quills brown, the inner webs edged with light fulvous 

 brown; "bill and legs black; iris browTi " {T. L. Ai/res, MS.), 

 Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-55, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Not different from the male in colour ; " bill black, 

 the under mandible yellowish at base ; tarsi and feet dusky ; iris 

 dusky hazel" (F. Barratt, MS.). Total length 4-8 inches, wing 

 2-()5, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-U5. 



Hah. South Africa. 



«. S ad. sk. Knysna, Dec. 8, 1865 (C J. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 Andersson). 



b. d ad. sk. Knysna,Jau.6,1866(C.J:^.). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Kuysna,Feb.7,1866(aJ.^.). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c?. c? ad. sk. Kuysua. C.J. Andersson, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. George, Sept. 20, 1870 {H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Atmore). 



/, (/. Ad. sk. Peri Bush, near Kingwil- H. Trevelyan, Esq. [P.]. 



liamstown. 



/^. 2 jiui- s^f- Elands Post, May 29, 1873 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{T. C. Atmore). 



i. (S ad. sk. Pine Town, Natal, June 14, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



\Q7b{T.L.Ayres). 



k. 5 ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



I. 2 ad. sk. Macamac, Nov. 28, 1874. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [0.]. 



3. Alseonax comitata. 



Butalis comitata, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1857, p. 25 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1870, p. 479 ; id. Cut. Afr. B. p. 42, no. 394. 

 Muscicapa comitata, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 265, no. 748; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 322, no. 4824. 



Adult. General colour above dark slate-colour, the wings dark 

 brown, the lesser and median coverts edged with the same slaty 

 grey as the back ; tail brown ; lores and eyelid white ; in front of 

 the eye a blackish spot ; sides of face dark slate-colour, the ear- 

 coverts with whitish shaft-lines, the fore part of the cheeks slightly 

 mottled with white ; throat dull whitish ; breast and sides of body 

 dark slaty grey, the centre of the abdomen dull brownish white, the 

 under tail-coverts dull whitish, ashy brown on the edges ; thighs 

 ashy brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries lighter slaty grey 



