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on the uuderparts. The throat is uniform grey \\Ve the 

 breast, while the rest of the uuderparts is also grey, but 

 a trifle paler, and usually iiicliuiug to whitish towards the 

 middle of the belly. There is a riug of paler grey plumes sur- 

 rounding the eye, and the quills are margined on the outer 

 edge with dull grey. Bill black, basal part pale bluish. 



The wiug measures : 5 J 80-84 mm. ; 2 ? 79, 80 mm. 



Hab. Toro, Uganda, and the eastern slopes of Ruwenzori. 



Parisoma plumbeum (Hartl.). 



Though placed m a different genus- from Muscicapa, this 

 species closely resembles Muscicapa in generic characters, 

 though the nasal bristles are more slender ; the under tail- 

 coverts are buif, in slight contrast with the belly, and the 

 wing is perhaps rather longer in proportion to the length of 

 the tail. In males of Parisoma plumbeum the wing measures 

 about 68-74 mm. and the tail 59-67 nnn., while in Musci- 

 capa ccerulescens the wing is 78-83 mm. and the tail 

 63-65 mm. In both birds there is a whitish loial streak 

 and a line of white plumes above and below the eye, the 

 inner secondaries are edged with white, and the primaries 

 narrowly margined with the same on the outer web. The 

 shape of the wing is the same in both birds, the 2nd 

 primary being rather longer than the 8th, and the 4th 

 slightly the longest. 



P. plumbeum is, of course, easily recognised by having the 

 outer pair of tail-feathers mostly white, the 5th pair partially 

 so, and the 4th (sometimes also the 3rd) pair tipped with 

 white. 



Chloropeta batesi Sharpe. 



Chloropeta batesi Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 468. 



The species is not, as stated by Sharpe in his original 

 description, very closely allied to C. kenya Sharpe, which 

 has the crown dull olive-yellow like the back. In C. batesi 

 the crown is darker than the back and forms a distinct cap, 

 being washed with brownish black. C. batesi is very closely 

 allied to C. massaica Fischer & Reich w., but the latter has 

 the mantle and back yellower and of a lighter tint. 



