298 MTJSCICAPID^. 



4:5. ERYTHROCERCUS. rpype. 



Krytlirocerciis, Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 97 (1857) E. maccalli. 



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Bill of Eri/fhrocercws maccalli. 

 Bamje. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head rufous, streaked with white ; upper surface of 



body grey maccalli, p. 298. 



b. Head ashy gxey; upper surface of body olive- 



yellow Uvitigstonii, p. 298. 



1. Erythrocercus maccalli. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 



Pycnosphrys maceallii, Cass. Proc. Philnd. Acad. 1855, p. 326. 



Ervthrocercus maceallii, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 97 ; Cass. Proc. 

 Philad. Acad. 1869, p. 51; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 170; Fitisch Sr 

 Hartl. Voq. Ostafr. p. 303; Sharpe ^ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1877, p. ^79. 



Muscicapa m'callii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4853. 



Adult female. General colour above ashy grey, slightly more ru- 

 fesceut on the lower back, the upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 

 bright chestnut ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series and 

 the quills browner, with ashy brown edgings ; crown of head chest- 

 nut, with white mesial streaks to the feathers, the lores fawn- 

 colour ; feathers round and below the eye chestnut ; ear-coverts 

 ashy grey, like the hinder crown and sides of neck, the latter with 

 buffy-white bases to the feathers ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck 

 fawn-buff; rest of under surface buffy whitish, the thighs browner ; 

 under wing-coverts pale fawn-colour, as also the edgiugs to the 

 quills below. Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1*85, 

 tail 1-95, tarsus 0*6. 



Hah. Gamma and Moonda Rivers, Gaboon, and the Congo. 

 a. 5 ad. sk. Grande, Congo. Dr. Lucan and M. Petit [C]. 



2. Erythrocercus livingstonii. (Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Muscicapa, n. sp., Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4854, undh. 

 Erythrocercus livingstonii, Finsch S,~ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 303 {ex 

 Gray, MSS. in 3fus. Brit.). 



Adult (type of species). Crown of head ashy grey ; general colour 

 above olive-yeUow ; the rump and upper tail-coverts bright tawny 

 rufous ; the tail chestnut, with yellowish margins near the base of 

 the feathers ; wing- coverts light brown, with yellowish margins : 

 quills dark brown, also margined with yellow ; lores, cheeks, and 



