144 MtTSCICAPII),^. 



7. ARTOMYIAS. 



Type. 

 Aytoniyias, /. ^- -E". Verr. J.f. O. 1856, p. 104 A. fuli{jinosa. 



Bill of Artomyias futiginosa, 

 Jlanr/e. Couflned to Western Africa. 



Key to the 8])enes. 



a. Larger : above chocolate-brown ; below mottled 



with dark-brown centres to the feathers fuliyinosa, p. 144, 



h. Smaller: sooty black or dark brown; below uni- 



foi-m greyish brown msheri, p. 144. 



1. Artomyias fuliginosa. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



Ai'tomvias faliginosa, /. ^- E. Verr. J. f. O. 1855, p. 104 (Maa-ch) ; 

 Hartl. Om. W.-Afr. p. 93 ; Cass. Pr. Phil. Acad. 1859, p. 50 -, 

 Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 1G6 ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, ^c. p. 19 ^ 

 Sharpe 8i Bmmer, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ISll , p. 479. 



Butalis infiiscatus, Cass. Pr. PMlad. Acad. 1855, p. 326 (April). 



Muscicapa infuscata, Hartl. Om. W.-Afr. p. 69; Gray, Hand-l. Bt 

 i. p. 324, no. 4832. 



Muscicapa fuliginosa, Gray, Hmid-l. B. i. p. 324, no. 4861. 



Adult. General colour above dark ckocolate-brown, with sligbt 

 mfous margins to the feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills dark brown, the 

 secondaries narrowly margined with lighter brown ; tail dark 

 brown ; sides of face chocolate-brown, the cheeks indistinctly 

 margined with fulvous ; under sirrfaee of the body light fulvous 

 brown, mottled all over with darker brown centres to the feathers, 

 those of the middle abdomen whity brown centred with darker 

 brown, the flanks rather more ritfous ; under tail-coverts dark 

 brown with a creamy-buff spot at the base, and tipped with whity 

 brown ; under wing-coverts brown edged with rufous ; quills dusky 

 brown below, with a narrow edging of light rufous to the inner 

 web. Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 3'2, tail 2*05^ 

 tarsus 0*55. 



Hab. West Africa from Gaboon to the Congo, 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux, 1854. (? Type 



of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



2. Artomyias ussheri. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Artonivias ussheri, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 416, et 1872, p. 70 ; Ussher, 



26i«,'l874, p. 60. 

 Artomyias fuliginosa, Rcichen. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 22 {nee Verr.). 



