360- MUSCICAPID^. 



eluding the throat, glossy purplish black ; rest of under surface of 

 body bright orange-chestnut, including the under wing-coverts ; 

 quills ashy below, with rufous edges to the inner webs. Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-05, tail 3'8, middle feathers 6, 

 tarsus 0'6. 



Adult female {?). Similar to the male, but duUer-coloured, espe- 

 cially on the head, which has scarcely any gloss at all ; the tail 

 shorter. Total length 7 inches, wing 2-9, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-6. 



Young. Similar to supposed adult female, but much duller and 

 browner in colour ; head and throat dusky blackish, the latter washed 

 with orange ; quills ashy brown, externally edged with dull orange ; 

 tail brown, washed with dull orange near the base. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Gold Coast ; island of 

 Bulama. 



a,b. cJ 2 ad. sk. West Africa. Purchased. 



c. 5 ad. ; d. ^ juv. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



e,f. (S ad. sk. Fantee ( 6'oyerMor Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



«7. 5 ad.; h. Jut. sk. Ashantee. John Gould, Esq. 



J. (5 ad. sk. Accra {Capt. Ilaynes). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



11. Terpsiphone rufiventris. 



Muscipeta rufiventris, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. .53, pi. 4 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 325 ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 49, note. 

 Muscipeta (Tchitrea) casamancse. Less. Ann. Set. Nat. ix. p. 173. 

 Muscipeta smithii, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 34 ( $ ) ; Alkn 8r Thorns. 



Bap. Niger, ii. p. 492. 

 Tchitrea rufiventris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 90, no. 275; id. J f. 0. 1861, p. 167 ; ScM. N. T. D. iii. p. 86. 

 Tchitrea smithii, Hartl Orn. W.-Afr.^. 91, no. 279; Cass. Pr. Philad. 



Acad. 1859, p. 42 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 168 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 333, no. 5018. 

 Tchiti-ea rufiventer, Gi-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 333, no. 5004. 

 Terpsiphone smithii, Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 312, note. 



Adult male. General colour -above rich orange-rufous, the entire 

 tail also of the latter colour ; scapulars and least wing-coverts orange, 

 like the back ; rest of the wing-coverts white, with black bases to 

 the feathers ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the 

 secondaries externally edged with white, the inner ones with duU 

 orange-rufous, the innermost being entirely of this colour ; head with 

 a long occipital crest glossy steel-blue, the sides of the face and throat 

 of this colour also ; rest of imder surface, from the lower throat 

 downwards, rich orange-chestnut ; under wing-coverts a little paler 

 than the breast ; outermost under wing-coverts white, the lower 

 ones black ; quills ashy blackish below, with whitish edgings to the 

 inner secondaries. Total length 12-8 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 3-35, 

 tail 4-3, middle tail-feathers 9-5, tarsus 0-6. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male, but without the long centre 

 tail-feathers ; no white on the wing, the primaries edged with 

 rufous ; occipital-crest feathers rufous, tipped with steel-blue ; " bill 

 slate-colour, with a purplish tinge, the lower mandible lightest; feet 



