84 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



Terpsiphone atroehalybea Q , Sharpe, Ibis 1874, p. 61 (nee Thomson). 

 Terpsiphone nigrimitrata , Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1874 p. 110. 



Three specimens , adult male and female with their 

 young, obtained in low forest near Hill Town. 



I happened to shoot both parents while feeding the 

 young, which had already left the nest The young has 

 the color of the adult female. Both adult male and female 

 agree with our specimens from the Gold Coast, collected 

 by Nagtglas. 



Iris brown , upper mandible black , lower mandible and 

 angle of the mouth bluish, feet blue. 



68. Mu s cicap a lug ens. 



Bulalis lugens, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 110; id. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 169. 

 Muscicapa lugens , Finsch & Hartl. Vög. Ost Afr. p. 302 ; — Reichenow, 



J. f. 0. 1875,p.22; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 203; — Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Br. Mus. IV. p. 155 (1879). 



Three specimens, ad. cf, 9 ^-^d young, altogether killed 

 by one shot, on the Du Queah, Febr. 5th 1887. 



Both adult specimens agree perfectly with the descrip- 

 tion of the type of the species , given by Sharpe in his 

 Catalogue. Wing in the male 70 mM., in the female 65 

 mM. — Tail in male 54, in female 50 mM. 



The young specimen , which short before must have left 

 the nest, shows a distribution of colors about similar to 

 the young M. grisola. 



The whole upper surface is strongly spotted with fulvous. 

 This color occupies in the fashion of a round spot the ter- 

 minal part of each feather, except a narrow edge, which 

 is left black. The edge of the wing , the tips to the great- 

 er wing-coverts, the broad edges and tips to the second- 

 aries, the tips to the black primaries and tail-feathers 

 are of the same color, the latter however inclining to 

 white. Chin and throat are grayish white , abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts pure white , chest grayish fulvous , faintly 

 mottled with black. Bill black , inside , edges and base of 

 lower mandible yellow. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museu.xn, Vol. X. 



