Birds from the Fantee Country. 479 



148, PsALiDOPROCNE HOLOMEL^NA (Sundev.) J Sharpc, 

 P.Z.S. 1870, p. 288. 



One specimen in Mr. Ussher's last collection, shot by him at 

 Fort Victoria, Cape Coast. 



tl49. CoTYLE ciNCTA (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 297. 



One specimen from the Volta. The only Cotijle known to 

 occur so far north in Western Africa is C, eques, Hartl., de- 

 scribed from Prince's Island. When I wrote my paper on the 

 African Swallows (/. c.) I had never seen the species ; but I sepa- 

 rated it from C. cincta on account of the white which it was 

 stated to possess on the outer tail-feather. If, as I have good 

 reason to believe, the Fantee bird is the same as the species 

 from Prince's Island, I would not now separate it from C. cincta, 

 from which it differs only in its darker coloration and smaller 

 length of wing, characters which a larger series would be sure 

 to show are not specific. 



150. HiRUNDO PUELLA,Temm.; Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 319. 

 One specimen. 



flSl. BuTALis coMiTATUs, Cass. ; Hartl., Orn. Westafr. 

 p. 265. 



Above dark grey, the feathers of the head long and very 

 broad, forming a sort of crest ; quills and tail-feathers deep 

 blackish-brown ; lores whitish ; feathers between the bill and 

 the eye black ; cheeks pale grey ; throat and abdomen white, 

 tinged slightly on the latter with fulvous; upper part of the 

 breast pale rusty-grey, inclining to darker grey on the sides of 

 the body ; bill black ; feet dark brown. Total length 5 in., of 

 wing 2-85, tail 2*1, tarsus '96, 



The above is a description of a specimen in the Leyden Mu- 

 seum. 



This species must be very closely allied to Muscicapa mo- 

 desta, Hartl. {o'p. cit. p. 96), but seems nevertheless to be dis- 

 tinct, as far as can be gathered from descriptions, which are 

 never any great help in determining these Grey Flycatchers. 

 The principal difference seems to be in the much shorter length 

 of the tarsus in the Fantee bird, and in the total absence of 



