5. DIAPHOROPHTIA. 141 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape, as far as the centre of the 

 back, and wing-coverts glossy blue-black ; cheeks, ear-coverts, sca- 

 pulars, lower back, and rump pure silky white ; quills black, white 

 at the base of inner web, the secondaries very narrowly margined 

 with white externally near the base : upper tail-coverts and tail 

 glossy black ; under surface of body entirely pure white, with a, 

 broad blue-black band across the breast ; under wing-coverts exter- 

 nally black, the lower ones margined with white ; axillary tuft 

 white ; bill black ; feet brown ; iris yellow, eye-wattle bright 

 scarlet ; " feet brownish lilac ; eye-wattle dark lilac ; iris brownish 

 red" (FaUcenstein). Total length 3--1 inches, ciilmen 0-5, wing 2-3, 

 tail 1, tarsus O0.5. 



Adult female Totally different from the male. Above chestnut, 

 the rump greyish, varied with white ; head bluish grey ; quills 

 brown, externally margined with chestnut ; tail blackish ; chin 

 white ; cheeks, throat, and breast chestnut ; a little spot of white 

 under the eye ; rest of under surface silky white, the flanks greyish ; 

 outer under wing-coverts chestnut ; axillary tufts white. 



Young male. Chestnut like the old female, but having the head, 

 back, and chest mixed with black, indicative of the adolescent 

 plumage, 



Hab. West Africa. 



a,h. J $ ad. ; c. $ jun.sk. Clarence, Fernando Po. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 d,e. ^ ad.; f,fj. Jad. sk. YAuieeiGovernorUssher). R. B. .Sliarpe, Esq. 

 h. S ad. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



i. (S juv. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



A;, I. 5 ad. sk. Cameroous Mountains. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Jan. & Feb. 1871 {A. 



Cros-sky) . 

 m. J ad. sk. Gaboon. Purchased. 



n. (S ad. sk. Inner Angola {Ha- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



vnUon). 



2. Diaphorophyia blissetti. 



Platystira conereta, Hart/. J.f. O. 1861, p. 169. 



Diaphorophyia blissetti, Sharpe, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. (4) x. p. 451 ; 



id. Ihu, 1873, p. 173. 

 Platystira blissetti, Reichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 23. 



Adidt. Above dark rifle-green, slightly metallic, the tail much 

 brighter and more metallic, the rump-feathers white at the base, 

 showing more plainly when the plumage is disarranged ; wing- 

 coverts rifle-green, a little more metallic than the back ; quills 

 blackish, externally margined with metallic green, more especially 

 the secondaries ; throat rifle-green, slightly metallic ; a tuft of 

 feathers occupying the cheeks and sides of the neck bright chestnut ; 

 under surface of body white, the flanks streaked with greyish ; under 

 wing-coverts black, axillary tuft white ; " bill black ; feet greyish 

 violet ; iris dark brown, with a fine white inner ring ; eye-wattles 

 clear blue-grey "(iifu•7^euo»'). Total length 3'5 inches, culracn 0*6, 

 wing 2-15, tail 0-95, tarsus 0'75. 



