obtained in British East Africa. 89 



fication it certainly is so beyond any doubt. When feeding 

 it resembles both the Spotted Flycatcher and the Robin, as 

 it takes its prey both on the wing and on the ground. It 

 reminds me very much of the Robin when sitting on the 

 lower branches of a tree^ generally a dead one, with head 

 cocked on one side, on the look-out for some insect on the 

 ground, pouncing on and devouring it, and then returning 

 to the same or to another perch. In its nesting-habits it is 

 a Flycatcher, making a nest of dry leaves, moss, fibre, and 

 hair on a branch or in the fork of a tree. Eggs two — much 

 spotted with brown — very like, but darker than, those of the 

 Spotted Flycatcher. 



238. Alseonax murina. 



Muscicapa murina (Fischer & Reichen.) ; Reichen. Vog. 

 deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 15;^ (1894) (Bukoba) ; Shelley, B. 

 Africa, i. p. 94 (1896). 



Alseonax murina Hinde, Ibis, 1898, p. 511 (Machako's) ; 

 Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 173; O. Neum. J. f. O. 1900, 

 p. 260. 



No. 35. cT ad. Ravine, March 17, 1896. Iris brown; 

 bill and feet black. Fairly plentiful at the Ravine. Exactly 

 like our own Flycatcher in habits, returning again and again 

 to the same perch ; but this custom appears to be nearly 

 universal with all the Flycatchers and Bee-eaters. 



No. 41. S ad. Ravine, March 21, 1896. Bill black, 

 base of lower mandible pale dusky yellow; feet black. Seen 

 in pairs, evidently about to breed. 



No. 481. S ad. Ravine, Feb. 24, 1897. In habits this 

 small Flycatcher is exactly like our common bird at home. 

 It is often seen sitting on dead twigs at the top of the tallest 

 trees, darting out every now and again at some fly or other 

 insect and returning to the same twig. 



No. 601. ? ad. Ravine, April 3, 1897. 



No. 862. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, Feb. 13, 1898. 



No. 878. ? ad. „ „ Feb. 17, 1898. 



No. 1246. c? ad. „ „ June 27, 1898. 



