10. MirsciCAPA. loo 



their base ; bill and feet black ; iri:^ dark brown. Total length 

 5-3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-95, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-7. 

 Hah. East Africa, Southern and South-western Africa. 



a. Ad. St. Natal. Purchased. 



b. $ ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Natal {T. Ayres). J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



d. Ad. sk. Ombongo, Damara Land, R. 13. Sharpe, Esq. 



June 22, 1859 (C. J. 

 Andersson). 



Subsp. a. Muscicapa cinerascens. 



Adult. Similar to M. ccendescens, but more ashy grey and not so 

 blue, especially on the sides of the face and breast ; differing from 

 the last-named species in being duller coloured, and in having a 

 longer and rather thinner bill ; biU horn-brown, with the base of the 

 lower mandible lighter yellowish. Total length 5-G inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-8, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-G5. 



Uab. Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Fantee {Governor Ussher). R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



5. Muscicapa lugens. 



Butalis lugens, Hartl. P. Z. ,S. 1860, p. 110; id. J. f. O. 1861, 



p. 169. 

 Muscicapa lugens, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4817 ; Finsch (§■ 



Hartl. Viig. Ostafr. p. 302; Reichen. J.f. O. 1875, p. 22 ; Socage, 



Orn. Angola, p. 203. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above uniform blue-grey, 

 the forehead and crown slightly mottled with blackish centres to the 

 feathers, the upper tail-coverts browner with blue-grey margins ; 

 wings black, the wing-coverts broadly edged with blue-grey, the 

 secondaries with ashy grey, paler at the tips of the feathers ; primary- 

 coverts and primaries uniform blackish brown ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with grey near the base, and very slightly tipped with 

 white ; lores ashy whitish ; feathers in front of the eye dusky ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts dusky grey, the latter slightly streaked with whitish ; 

 throat whitish ; sides of neck, breast, and sides of body ashy grey, 

 the belly and under tail-coverts white ; thighs grey ; under wing- 

 coverts ashy grej", the wing-coverts whitish at tip ; quills ashy below, 

 with brown edgings along the inner webs ; bill dark brown, the lower 

 mandible lighter. Total length 5"5 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 2"85, 

 tail 2"3.5, tarsus 0*55. 



01)!^. In 1859 the late Mr. Cassin noticed a species of Flycatcher 

 from the Camma, but was unable to determine it. This he did, no 

 doubt, advisedly, knowing the difRciiltj' in identifying the species of 

 this genus ; but Mr. Heine, without ever seeing the bird, gave a name 



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