3(52 muscicapidj:. 



under surface creamy white, the sides of the body washed with 

 chestnut : thighs dusky brown ; axillaries white ; rest of wing- 

 coverts dull brown. Total length G-5 inches, wing 3-3, tail 3-1, 

 tarsus 0-6. 



Young male. Darker chestnut than the female, and with a slight 

 glossy maroon shade ; purple of head more distinct ; throat darker 

 slate-colour ; centre of body pure white, the flanks chocolate-brown. 

 (Mits. II. Scehohm.) 



Hah. China and Japan, ranging south into the Malayan peninsula. 



a. Ad. sk. China. 



b. c? ad. sk. Shanghai, May 1851. R. Webbe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Japan. Zoological Society. 

 (1. c? ad. sk. Malacca. 



e. (5 ad. sk. Malacca. Purchased. 



/. Juv. sk. Kessang, Malacca. M. Bouvier. 



13. Terpsiphone atrichalybea. 



Muscipeta atrochdybea, Thomson, Ann. Nat. Hist. x. p. 104; Hartl. 



Beitr. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 46 ; Bocage, Jurn. Lish. ii. p. 9. 

 Tchitrea atrochalybea, Hartl. 0)-n. W.-Afr. p. 92 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 333, no. 5009. 

 Terpsiphone atrichalybea, Finsch 8f HaHl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 313, note ; 



Reivhen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 22. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above glossy greenish 

 black, with more or less of a steel-blue lustre, especially on the 

 least and median wing-coverts ; greater coverts and quills black, 

 edged with steel-blue, nearly obsolete on the primaries ; tail black, 

 with dull steel-green edges to the feathers ; under surface of body 

 steel-green, duller on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are 

 edged with the greenish colour ; under wing-eoverts like the breast ; 

 quiUs ashy black below. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 

 3-05, tail 3*5, centre tail-feathers 5-9, tarsus 0"8. 



Hah. Congo region in West Africa, Fernando Po, St. Thomas. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Fernando Po. Dr. Thomson [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



14. Terpsiphone corvina. 



Tchitrea corvina, H. Neivton, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 345 ; id. Ibis, 1807, 

 p. 349, p]. 4 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 333, no. 5023 ; Hartl. Vog. 

 3Iadag. p. 177. 



Achdt male. General colour above and below glossy blue-black ; 

 the wings and tail black, washed with blue-black on the edges. 

 Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-75, tail 3"8, centre tail- 

 feathers 10-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female (Praslin, Seychelles, Feb. 16, 1867). General colour 

 above dark chestnut, the wing-coverts a little duller chestnut, with 

 dusky-brown inner webs : bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky browu, narrowly edged with chestnut, the secondaries much 



