140 



MPSCICAriD^. 



brown ; iris yellow. Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 1-85. tail l-;i, tarsns 0-5. 



Yonnq. Similar to the adult but browner, and having a few of 

 the feathers on the head and back margined with buffy white. 



Hah. West Africa; Gaboon. 



a. S fid. sic. 

 h. <S juv. sk. 



Gaboon. 

 Gaboon. 



M. Verreaiix. 



R. R. Sharpe, Esq. 



5. DIAPHOROPHYIA. 



Piaphoropliyia, J?;). C. li. xxxviii. p. G.V3 (18.54). 

 Mviophila, ilarfhuih, Orn. W.-Afr. p. 9-5 (18.57) . 



A^romvias, Heine, J. f. O. I860', p. 13.3 



Stipln-omvias, Heine. J. f. O. 1860, p. 1-3.3 



Tj-pe. 



D. castanea. 

 D. castanea. 

 D. concreta. 

 U. concreta. 



Head and wing of Diaphorophyia castanea r^ . 

 Range. Confined to Western Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen white. 



a'. Round the hind neck a white collar; rump 



white castanea c? , P- 140. 



b'. No white collar round the hind neck. 



a". Upper surface chestnut ; head grey ; throat 



chestnut castanea $ , p. 140. 



b". Upper surface glossy oreenish black, as also 



the throat; head uniform with the back. . bfisseifi S , P- 141. 



b. Abdomen and entire under surface of body deep 



orange-chestnut concreta, p. 142. 



1. Diaphorophyia castanea. 



Platystira castanea, Fraser, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 141 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p.'257; Allen Si- Thorns. E.vp. Niqer, ii. p. 498; Fraser, Zool. Ti/p. 



pi. .34. fig. 2 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 022. 

 Platystira leucopygialis, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 142; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 25 ; Allen 4'- Thonis. E.rp. Nic/er, ii. p. 499 ; Fraser, Zool. 



Ti/p. pi. 34. fig. 1 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 322; StricM. Contr. Orn. 1851, 



p.' 163 ; J.SfE. J'erreatu; Per. et Maej. de Zool. 1851, p. .309 ; iid. 



op. cit. 185.5, p. 418; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 95; Cass. Pr. Philad. 



Acad. 18.59, p. -50; Hartl. .7. f. O. 1861, p. 169; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 329; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 480; id. P.Z. S. 1871, pp. 133, 



610; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 43; Peicheiww, J.f. O. 1877, p. 22. 

 Diaphorophyia leucopygialis, Bp. C. P. xxxviii. p. 353; Bocage, 



Orn. Angola, p. 201 ; Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



1877, p, 479. 

 Agromyias leucopygialis, Heine, J.f. O. 1861, p. 133. 

 Diaphorophyia castanea, Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 172. 



