iQi/'J the Birds of Yemen. 171 



Tchitrea viridis. 



Muscicapa viridis P. L. S, Miiller, Linn, Syst. Nat., Snppl. 

 1776, p. 171 : Senegal. 



Terpsiphone cristata auct. 



Yerbuiy, 88, p. 16, 96, p. 22 ; Barnes, 93, p. 72 ; 

 O. -Grant, 1900, p. 257. 



a-f. 3c?, 3 ? . Wasil, 4000 ft. 15. ii. 13 to 4. iii. 15. 



" For startling plumage nothing can surpass the Paradise 

 Flycatcher, denizen of mid-altitude, where he ranges among 

 the coffee in deep ravines. He begins life (after he is 

 fledged) as a brisk young spark, all bright rufous chestnut, 

 with a head of shot-silk tipped with a jaunty crest 'just like 

 mother.' Next year he will throw out unexpected splashes of 

 white along his wings, as the breeding-season approaclies, 

 and the two central shafts of his tail grow longer and larger. 

 These two long tail-shafts are much prized by natives, who 

 consider it a gift for a prince. Therefore the adult white 

 plumage is always accompanied by extreme sliyness and 

 timidity. He haunts secluded and densely wooded ravines, 

 guarded by giant precipices, ready always to flicker through 

 the gloomy bush like a streak of white satin at the first 

 alarm, or dive for settling down a thousand feet or so to the 

 next belt of jungle,^' 



Two of the males have long tails ; in the third the middle 

 tail-feathers are beginning to grow ; all are in the red- 

 backed and red-tailed stage, and show no signs of the white 

 stage supposed to be the completed male plumage. The 

 bird has a wide distribution throughout north-east and 

 western Africa. 



Cryptolopha umbrovirens yemenensis. 



Cryptolopha umbrovirens yemenensis O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxxi. 1913, p, 90: Yemen. 



a,b. ^ ^ . Menakha, 8000 ft. 20. xii. 12 & 28. i, 13. 

 [Types,] 



c-e. 2c?,?. Wasil, 4000 ft. 15-25. ii. 13, 



■ Found amono; the leafless walnut-groves below Menakha.^* 



