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character is the much palei- color of the upper surface; for the less 

 conspicuous streaking- of the lower parts, given by Neumann as an 

 additional distinction, appears not to be constant enough to be of v^alue. 

 Unfortunately Mr. Neunuuui's term ^ih'n-'iea is preoccupied by J/^^s•- 

 c'teapa s'hJrica (xnielin/' which is now Ileinlchelidon s!h!r!ea (Gmelin), 

 and another name is therefoi-e necessary for the central Asian form of 

 Muscicapd striata he distinguished. This has been recently supplied 

 by Poche/'' and the bird should accordingly be called Muscicapa 

 drlata neanainni^ as abox'e. The Muscicapa (jr'imla of Linnseus,^ of 

 which this form is a subspecies, must give place to the earlier 

 Motar'ilJa striata of Pallas,'' as already pointed out by Dr. C. W. 

 Richmond.' 



ALSEONAX MURINUS MURINUS Fischer and Reichenow. 



Alucoiuu: miivina Flsiheh ami Keichenow, Joiirn. f. Oniith., 18S4, p. 54 (Mount 

 Meru, Masai Land, (Ternian East Africa). 



Four specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5, <><»() and 10,000 feet. 

 Two of these, male and female, taken respectively June 8 and July 

 t^H, isss, are in fresh plumage, and are much more butfy on the lower 

 surface than a worn female obtained April 16, 1888. 



The foui'th exam])le, secured April 19, 1888, is a male in the unre- 

 corded Juvenal plumage, and may be described as follows: Cpper parts 

 grayish brown, becoming more rufescent posteriorly, everywhere with 

 hastate spots of l)uffy or ochraceous, these })al(\st on crown and darkest 

 on upper tail-coverts, least numerous on head, smallest on nape; wings 

 aii«l tail fuscous, the tertials, inner secondaries, median and greater 

 covei'ts margined with ochraceous butf; lores, eye ring-, and extreme 

 forehead ochraceous, much mixed with blackish; sides of head and 

 neck, with entire lower surface, but!', thick!}- streaked with l)rownish 

 black, except on lower abdomen and crissum, which are inunaculate; 

 lining of wing- ochraceous butf mixed with brownish. 



CICHLOMYIA/ new genus. 



Chars, (jeti. — Similar to Mascuutpa BrLsson, but tail longer (about 

 tliree-fourths of wing); second primary shorter than sixth; four pri- 

 maries sinuate on their outer webs; spurious primary very nuich 

 long-er than i)rimary coverts. 



Type. — Biifidls cirralcscrns I Iar( laub. 



B3- most authors this genus has been included, at least parth% in 



«8yst. Nat., I, ii, 1788, p. 986. 

 ^'Ornitli. Monatsber., 1904, p. 2H. 

 cSyst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, p. .S28. 

 '^n Vroeg's. Catal., 1764, Adumlirat., j). 3. 

 ''Sniithson. (inart., II, 1905, \). :]45. 

 fKi'x^J^, turdus; i-tvTa, niiisca. 



