6. CHJilTUEA, 489 



/", g. J ad. sk. Lauclana, Congo, April, July Sbellev Coll. 



(^PetU). 



h. Ad. sk. Yambuya, Aruwimi Iliver. Jameson Coll. 



24, Chaetura boehmi. 



Chfetura cassini, Bohm, J.f. O. 1883, p. 178 (Kakoma). 

 Chajtura cassini, Schalow, J. f. O. 188-j, p 35:2 (Kakoma). 

 Chaetura boehmi, Schalow, Ornith. Centralbl. 1882, p. 183; id. J. f. 



O. 1883, pp. 104, 3o2 (Kakoma) ; Reichen. ^- Schalow, J. f. O. 



1884, p. 381. 



Above black ; chin, throat, and sides of body sooty brown ; 

 feathers of the upper throat with black shafts ; wings black ; lores, 

 breast, lower tail-coverts, and small band across the rump white. 

 Total length 3-55 inches, wing 4-9. 



Differs from C cassini in the throat being sooty brown and not 

 white, the lores and breast white instead of brownish grey. 



Hab. Kakoma, E. Africa. 



I have not seen a specimen of this species. 



25. Chaetura grandidieri. 



Chsetura grandidieri, Schleg. P. Z. S. 18G6, p. 421 ; Verr. Noxi'. 

 Arch, du Mus. iii. Bull. 1867, p. 3, pi. i. ; Grandid. Bev. et Ma;/, 

 de Zool. 1807, p. 353; Schleg. et Pollen, Faune de Madag. ii. p. 05 

 (1868); Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 67; Hartl. Vog. Madagasc. p. 61 

 (1877) ; Milne-Edio. et Grandid. Madagasc, Ois. p. 196, pis. Lsxi. 

 & Ixxvi. (1879). 



Collocalia coquerelii (Poll. MS.), Schleg. ^- Pollen, op. cit. 



Adult. Dark brown above, a brownish-white band with dark 

 shaft-stripes across the rump ; underparts from the chin to tlie 

 under tail-coverts greyish brown, with darker yhaft-stripes. Total 

 length about 4'5 inches, wing 4'7, tail 1*8. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a,h. S 2 ^d. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



26. Chaetura sylvatica. 



Acanthvlis svlvatica, Tick. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. p. 284 (1846'| ; 



Jerd'.B.Tnd. i. p. 170 (1862); Blgth, Ihis, 1866, p. 339 ; Jenl. 



i6/s, 1871, p. 354; Ball, Stray Feath. ii. p. 384 (1874); Wald. 



Ibis, 1876, p. 356. 

 Chretura sylvatica, Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 614; id. J.f. 0. 1867, 



p. 136 ; Ball, Strati Feath. vii. p. 202 (Godaveri) (1878) : Davison, 



ibid. X. p. 346 (Mysore) (1882). 

 Rbaphidura .sylvatica. Gates, B. Burm. ii. p. 7, note (1883). 



Adult. Top of the head, back of the neck, buck, wings, and tail 

 black with some steel-blue gloss ; chin, throat, and breast greyish, 

 becoming darker and more brownish grey on tlie breast, and 

 gradually shading into the colour of the lower abdomen, which is 



