174 Mr. ft. B. Sharpe on the 



slightly metallic ; a tuft of feathers occupying the cheeks and 

 sides of the neck bright chestnut ; under surface of body white, 

 the flanks streaked with greyish ; under wing-coverts black, 

 axillary tuft white ; bill black ; feet brownish. Total length 

 3'5 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 2 - 15, tail 0*95, tarsus 0*75. 



Young. Entirely grey above, the tail with a slight metallic 

 green gloss ; underneath white, the cheeks bright orange- 

 rufous, and the fore neck washed with the same colour. 



Hab. Gold Coast. 



The typical specimen in the British Museum is apparently 

 a female, or a younger bird than the one described and figured, 

 as it is not so brightly coloured and has the back greyish. 



Specimens examined. 



Mus. Brit. — a. Fantee {A. Swanzy : type of species) . b,juv. 

 Ashantee. 



Mus. R.B.S.—a. Wassaw, Gold Coast {H. F. Blissett). 



3. DlAPHOROPHYA CONCRETA. 



Platysteira concreta, Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 360; Gray, 

 Hand-1. of B. i. p. 330 (1869). 



Myiophila concreta, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 95 (1857) ; id. 

 J. f. O. 1861, p. 169. 



Stiphromyias concreta, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 133. 



Above cinereous, with somewhat of a greenish, slightly 

 metallic, gloss ; underneath bright but deep orange-rufous, 

 the chin and throat paler and yellowish ; tail uniform with 

 the back ; lores black, marked with a small white spot ; the 

 bare skin round the eye red ; under wing-coverts white ; bill 

 black, much broadened at the base ; tail very short, scarcely 

 passing the folded wing ; feet brown. Total length 3" 3"', 

 beak 5f", wing 2" 1'", tail 8±"', tarsus 8'". {Hartlaub.) 



Hab. Gold Coast {Mus. Lugd.) . 



I have not had the pleasure of personally examining this 

 species, which from the proportions of its wings and tail would 

 fall, under my arrangement, into the genus Diaphorophya. I 

 cannot help suspecting that a comparison of the types would 

 prove its identity with my D. blissetti ; and this suggestion is 



