142 MUSCICAPIDJi. 



Toimg. Entirely grey above, the taU with a slight metallic green 

 gloss ; underneath white, the cheeks bright orange-rufous, and the 

 fore neck washed with the same colour. 



Bab. AN^est Africa ; Gold Coast. 



o r 2 1 ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. 



L ¥ -I "^"^ (Type of species.) 



b r d 1 ad. sk. Wassaw, March 1872 {H. R. B. tSharpe, Esq. 



F. Blissett). 



c. Juv. sk. Ashantee. J- Gould, Esq. 



3. Diaphorophyia concreta. 



PlatTstira concreta, Hartl. J. f. O. 18o5, p. 360. 

 Platystira (MyiopMla) concreta, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 9o. 

 Stiphromvias concreta, Heine, J. f. O. IBUO, p. 133. 

 Myiophila concreta, Hartl. J.f. O. 18Gl,^p. 169.__ 

 Diaphorophyia concreta, Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 174. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark grey with a 

 greenish gloss, the wing- coverts coloured like the back: ramp 

 white ; quills dusky brown, margined with ashy grey, lighter on 

 the primaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail greenish black ; lores con- 

 spicuously white ; in front of the eye a black spot, the feathers 

 below the eye and the ear-coverts black, the latter with a greenish 

 shade ; cheeks and throat white, washed with orange ; remainder of 

 under surface deep orange-chestnut, the under tail-coverts bu_ff; 

 under wing-coverts and inner lining of the quills white, the quills 

 ashy below. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-2, tail 

 0-95, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. Lugd.) 



Hob. Ashantee. 



Obs. I have lately examined the type of this species, and hnd that 

 it is apparently quite a distinct species, and is not the young of 

 D. bUssetti, as I imagined it might prove to be when writing my 

 paper on the genus in 1873. 



6. BIAS. T, „ 



Type. 



Bias, Lesson, Traits, p. 385 (1831) B. musicus. 



Bill and foot of Bias musicus. 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



1. Bias musicus. 



Platyi-hynchos musicus, rieill. K. Diet. d'Hisi. Nat. xxvii. p. 15; 

 Acher. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 136 ; id. Arch. Mtis. \n. p. 371. 



