342 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Adult.—General colour above uniform blue-grey, the forehead 
and crown slightly mottled with blackish centres to the feathers, the 
upper tail-coverts browner with blue-grey margins ; wings black, the 
wing-coverts broadly edged with blue-grey, the secondaries with 
ashy-grey, paler at the tips of the feathers: primary-coverts and 
primaries uniform blackish brown: tail-feathers dark brown, edged 
with grey near the base, and very slightly tipped with white : lores 
ashy whitish : feathers in front of the eye dusky: cheeks and ear- 
eoverts dusky grey, the latter slightly streaked with whitish: throat 
whitish: sides of neck, breast and sides of body ashy-grey, the belly 
and under tail-coverts white : thighs grey : under wing-coverts ashy- 
grey, the wing-coverts whitish at tip: quills ashy below with brown 
edgings along the inner webs: bill dark brown, the lower mandible 
lighter. Total length, 5°5 inches; culmen, 0°6; wing, 2°85; tail, 
2°35; tarsus, 0°55. 
329. Muscicara CINEREOLA. Speke’s Flycatcher. 
Although originally discovered by the late Captain Speke in 
Usaramo during his travels in Eastern Africa, the present species 
has been met with by Senor Anchieta at Biballa in Mossamedes and 
at Humbe on the Rio Cunene. Drs. Hartlaub and Finsch, who have 
described the species (Végel Ost-afr. p. 302), state that it is strietly 
congeneric with M. grisola, but that it shows great affinity to several 
other African members of the genus which, on account of the pre- 
vailing grey colour of their plumage, are very closely allied the one 
with the other, and are not yet satisfactorily proved to constitute 
different species. The following is a translation of the original 
description :—Above ashy-grey, underneath dull whitish grey, paler 
than the upper surface ; the wings and tail dusky ash colour, the 
inner webs of the quills margined with white, the outer tail feather 
with a whitish edging at the tip ; under wing-coverts white; lores 
whitish; bill rather stout, blackish, the mandible pale at the base, 
“ feet dusky grey: iris brown” (Anchieta). Total length, 5’’ ; bill, 
5's wing, 2’’ 9’’’; tail, 2”” 1/’’; tarsus, 8’’ 8’”’. 
Fig. Finsch and Hartl. Vég. Ost-afr. taf. IV, fig. 1. 
330. PoGoNOcICHLA STELLATA. White-starred Bush-Flycatcher. 
Muscicapa stellata, Layard, B.S. Afr. p. 148. 
Victorin procured this species in the Knysna in the months of 
