6. BIAS. 143 



Moucherolle noir et blaiic, Less. Traite, p. 255. 



Mviagra flavipes, Stcains. Monogr. Flt/c. p. 255 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 261. 



Muscicapa nui^ica, Gray., Gen. B. i. p. 203. 



Bias rmisirus, Hartl. Orn. ll'.-Afr. p. 92, no. 281; Cass. Pr. Philad. 

 Acad. 185!), p. 50; Hartl. J.f. O. 1801, p. 168; Kirk, Ibh, 1864, 

 p. 319; Finsch ^- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 313, tab. iii. figs. 2,3; 

 iSharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 43; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 010; id. Ibis, 

 1871, p. 188; SJwlh'ij S^- Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 2SC-,; Ussher, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 60 ; Peicheii. J. f. O. 1875, p. 25 ; Boua'er, Cat. Ois. 

 Marchc, <^r. p. 19 ; Sharpe, ed. Layurd B. S. Afr. p. 337 ; id. Sf 

 Buuvicr, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. p. 308 ; Socage, Om. Angola, p. 189. 



Smithornis mu,sica, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 324, no. 4871. 



Adult male. General colour above glossj' rifle-green, the head 

 ■with a long crest ; scapulars and the r\imp slightly mottled with 

 wliite subterminal spots to the feathers ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts rifle-green like the back ; the greater series and the 

 secondaries black, margined externally with rifle-green ; the pri- 

 maries black, with white bases extending in a band across both 

 webs of all but the two outermost quills, on which this colour is 

 confined to the inner web only ; tail black, slightly glossed with 

 rifle-green on the edges of the feathers ; sides of face and of neck, 

 throat, and breast glossy rifle-green ; rest of under surface white, 

 the flanks mottled with black, with which all the feathers are 

 broadl}' margined ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts rifle-green 

 like the breast ; " bill black ; feet yellowish grey " {Eeichcnow). 

 Total length 6-2 inches, culmen O'So, wing 3"35, tail 2-05, 

 tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. General colour above chestnut, the tail entirely of 

 the latter colour ; all the wing-coverts chestnut like the back, as also 

 the secondaries ; primai-ics black for their terminal half, the basal 

 half chestnut ; head crested, blackish ; the hinder neck dusky 

 blackish, mottled with chestnut, the margins to the plumes being 

 of this colour ; ear-coverts black, slightly washed with chestnut ; 

 cheeks and under sm-face of body duU fawn-buff; the chin and 

 lower abdomen white ; the breast, flanks, under wing-coverts, and 

 inner lining of the quills chestnut ; the primaries blackish at tip ; 

 thighs chestnut. Total length 6 inches, wing 3"3, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. West Africa and the Zambesi district in South-eastern 

 Africa. 



West Africa. Purchased. 



West Africa. Purchased. 



Fantee. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Fantee {Govei-nor Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Abeokuta {H. Robin). F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 

 CameroonsMouiitaius,Feh.23, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1871 {A. Crosshy). 



Gaboon. Purchased. 



Landana, Congo. MM. Lucan & Petit [C.]. 



Nembao, Congo. MM. Lucan & Petit [C.]. 



Zambesi. Dr. Kirk [CI. 



Tetp, Zambesi. Dr. Kirk [C.]. 



