154 MirsCICAPID.'E. 



3. Muscicapa aquatica. 



Museicapa aquatica, Heuql. J. f. 0. 18CA, p. 2o6 ; Grm/, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 322, no. 4830; Heugl.' Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 436, Taf. xviii. 

 fig. 2. 



Adult male (Wau, January 1864, Heuglin). General colour above 

 ashy brown, the wings rather darker brown, with edgings of paler 

 brown to the greater coverts and the secondaries ; tail dull brown ; 

 in front of the eye a spot of dusky white ; eyelids and sides of face 

 ashy brown, with a slight reddish tinge ; throat white, the lateral 

 feathers slightly washed with pale brown ; breast and sides of the 

 body and under tail-coverts very pale ashy brown, the centre of the 

 abdomen and vent whiter ; thighs brown ; under wing-covcrts dull 

 brown, ■with lighter margins ; quills dull brown below, with lighter 

 brown margins to the inner webs ; " bill and feet black, the lower 

 mandible pale yellowish ; iris dusky " {Heuglin). Total length 

 5-1 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-65, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-55. {Mus. 

 Lugd.) 



Adidt female. Not to be distinguished from the male (Heuglin). 



Hob. Gazelle River, N.E. Africa ; Senegambia. 



a. Ad. sk. River Gambia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



4. Muscicapa caBrulescens. 



Butalis, sp., Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 109. 



Butalis cserulescens, Hartl. Ibis, 1865, p. 268. 



Muscicapa cterulesceus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 148, no. 282 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4813; Fin'sch ^ Hartl. Vcig. Ostafr. 



p. 303. 

 Muscicapa modesta, Bocaye, Jorn. Liah. ii. p. 43 (jiec Hartl.^. 

 Muscicapa cinereola, Finsch 8f Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 302, Taf iv. 



fig. 1 (type examined); Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 43 ; Bocage, 



Jorn. Lisb. ii. p. 343, v. p. 24 ; id. Orn. Anyola, p. 202. 



Adult male. General colour above dull blue-grey, the forehead and 

 cro-wn obscurely streaked with dark browTi down the centre of the 

 feathers ; wing-coverts grey like the back ; quills dark brown, ex- 

 ternally edged with grey, inclining to white on the extreme edge of 

 the primaries, and more distinct on the secondaries, which are other- 

 wise entirely grey ; tail ashy brown, with a very slight edging of 

 white at the tip ; from the base of the bill a line of buify white ex- 

 tending above the fore part of the eye ; in front of the latter a blackish 

 spot ; above and below the eye a spot of white, forming a tolerably 

 distinct superciliary mark, the spot below the eye larger and better 

 defined ; ear-coverts dull grey, with indistinct whitish shaft-lines ; 

 cheeks greyish, slightly mottled with whitish tips to the feathers ; 

 under surface of body dull grey, the throat and centre of the abdomen 

 purer white ; under tail-coverts ashy, with whitish tips ; thighs 

 greyish externally, dull white internally ; under wing-coverts ashy 

 whitish ; quills below dark brown, the inner webs whitish towards 



