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strengthened by the fact that soon after the publication of the 

 1 Ornithologie Westafrika's/ when the recollection of the 

 species would be tolerably fresh in his mind, Dr. Hartlaub 

 identified a bird in the British Museum as his Myiophila con- 

 creta, which is certainly referable to my D. blissetti. I have 

 therefore, with some feeling of confidence, added the genera 

 Myiophila and Stiphromyias as synonyms of Diaphorophya. 

 How far this confidence is justified will be decided some day 

 or other ; and though Dr. Hartlaub does not think the identity 

 of the two species at all probable, I must confess that I expect 

 to find them ultimately the same. On the other hand it must 

 be noticed that we have apparently two sexes of D. blissetti 

 in the Museum, one having a glossy green, the other a greyish 

 back, and that they both possess the red tufts on the side 

 of the head. 



Genus 5. Stenostira. 



Stenostira, Cab. & Bp. in Bp. Consp. i. p. 316 (1850) : 

 type S. scita. 



Empidivora, Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. pi. lxviii. (1850) : type 

 S. scita. 



Stenostira scita. 



Le Gobe-mouches mignard, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pp. 14, 

 154 (1805). 



Muscicapa scita, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 474 

 (1818). 



Muscicapa tenella, Licht. Verzeichn. Vog. Kaffernl. p. 12 

 (1842). 



Platystira longipes, Swains. Monogr. Flyc. p. 185, pi. xxi. 

 (c. 1837) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 143 (1867). 



Platystira scita, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 256 (1846) ; id. Hand-1. 

 of B. i. p. 330 (1869). 



Stenostira scita, Cab. & Bp. in Bp. Consp. i. p. 316 (1850). 



Adult male. Above greyish, a little paler on the rump ; 

 wings black ; the least wing-coverts greyish like the back, 

 with a vertical line of white extending the whole length of the 

 wing, beginning at the outer median coverts ; tail black, the 

 outermost feather white, the penultimate white for its apical 



