- 4^9 — 



Distinguisliing cliaracters — Resembles the above race but is 

 distinguished bv its smaller size vvings 59-61 mm. 



Neumann in his review of this species (1. c.) includes P. albi- 

 frons Sharpe from Angola a:, a race of P. cyanea. Sci.ater and 

 Praed disagreed with Neumann over this point and I entirely 

 concur with them. P. albifi ons has a verv distinct female which 

 never attains any chestnut on the breast. It is obviously a most 

 distinct species and cannot possiblv be allied with P. cyanea. 



Diaphorophyia castanea. 



Platystira castanea Fraser, P. Z. S., 1842, p. 141. — Tvpe 

 locality : Fernando Po. 



Mr Lowe shot two spécimens of Fraser's Spectacled Flycatcher 

 at Tju in [anuarv and Mr Robin Kemp two at Burutu and Agou- 

 lerie in June; one of Kemp's birds has got a certain amount of 

 white on the baclc of the neck, but I beleive it to be an example 

 of D. castanea and not of D. hormophorà. 



Range. — The range of this species is a wide one, extending 

 from Southern Nigeria to Angola and Eastwards to Kenya Colonv. 

 It is represénted in the British Muséum by a large séries from 

 Fernando Po, Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, N. Angola, 

 North Belgian Congo (where it was obtained at manv localities on 

 the Uelle river), Uganda and Kenya Colony. 



This Flycather does not seen to hâve any races, birds from East 

 and West Africa being indistinguishable. 



It is represénted in Upper Guinea by the closely allied species : 



Diaphorophyia hormophorà (Rchw, J. f. O., 1901, p. 285 : 

 Libéria to Togoland). 



Range — D. hormophorà is represénted in the British Muséum 

 from Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast. 



Reichenow records it also from Libéria (Vôg. Afr., II, p. 491). 



