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MUSCICAPID^. 



male ; back and other upper parts dark cinereous (without lustre) ; 

 wings and tail ashy black. Entire u'nderparts light cinereous, 

 darker on the throat and breast, and very pale on the abdomen ; 

 under wing-coyerts light ashy, nearly white. {Cassin, 1. c.) 



Besides the three specimens in the British Museum, I lately 

 observed four others in the Leiden collection, three males and a 

 female. The latter answered to the description given by Cassin. 

 The measurements were as follows : — Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 2-3, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-(5. 



Hah. West Africa ; Gold Coast to the Congo. 

 a, b. Ad. sk. Fantee (//. T. Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Fantee (v4i<AiHn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



3. Trochocercus borbonicus. 



Le Gobe-mouche hupe de I'isle de Bourbon, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 420, 



pi. 39. fig. 2 ; Daubent. PI. Mil. v. pi. 573. tig. 1. 

 Muscicapa bourbounensis, P. L. S. Mull.,S. N. Anhang, p. 171. 

 Bourbon Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 330. 

 Muscicapa borbonica, Qm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 939. 



Platyrhynchus borboniciis, Vieill. N. Diet. (VHid. Nat. xxvii. p. 13. 



Tchi'trea borbonica, Less. Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 278 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 204; Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 46; Schl. P.Z.S. 1866, 



p. 422; E. Newt. Ibis, 18G1, p. 271. 



Muscipeta borbonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 325 ; Schl. ^- Poll. Faune 



3Iadag. p. 78, pi. 22. 

 Terpsiphone borbonica. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 57 ; Hexigl. Orn, 

 N.O.-Afr. p. 446, note; Hartl. Vog. Madag. p. 176. 

 Adult. General colour above deep chestnut, the wing-coverts like 

 the back ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and primaries black, the 

 latter narrowly edged with chestnut, the secondaries more broadly, 

 the innermost entirely chestnut, excepting a mesial blackish shade ; 

 tail chestnut; head and neck glossy purplish black, extending 

 slightly upon the mantle ; sides of face and ear-coverts glossy black, 

 with a faint steel-green gloss ; under surface of body dark slaty grey, 

 lighter on the sides, the Hanks slightly washed with rufous ; lower ab- 

 domen, thighs, and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, with a faint reddish blush ; edge of wing slaty grey, 

 quills ashy brown below, reddish along the edge of the inner web, 

 broader on the inner secondaries ; bill and feet blackish ; iris dusky. 

 Total length G inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-9, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the head and hind 

 neck grey, glossed with steel-blue on the crown ; ear-coverts dark 

 ashy; throat and underparts generally lighter grey than in the 

 male, the vent and under fail-coverts white. Total length 5-9 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-75, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-7. 



Nestling. Entirely dark cinnamon above, below paler, the belly 

 whiter, the chest-feathers with white shaft-streaks ; tail-feathers 

 cinnamon -brown, darker brown at base ; vring-coverts and quills 

 blackish brown, broadly edged with rufous. (Jfus.A. ^- E. Newton.) 



Hah. Island.s of Mauritius and Bourbon. 

 a, b, c. Ad. sk. Mauritius i^Bewsher). R. B. Sharpe, E.sq. [P.]. 



