MUSCICAPIDJE. 131 



166. Platysteira print (Vieill.). Pririt Flycatcher. 



Le Pririt, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 161. 



Platystira pririt, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Om. 



1852, p. 144. 



Platysteira strepitam, Layard's Cat. No. 271. 

 Platysteira pririt, Sharpe's Cat. No. 410. 



[This species is only doubtfully alluded to in Mr. Andersson's 

 MS. notes ; but his last collection contained some specimens of 

 it, four of which are now in the cabinet of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. 

 Of these, three appear by the tickets to have been obtained at 

 Ovaquenyama in May and June, and the fourth in September 

 at Elephant's Vley. ED.] 



167. Platysteira affinis, Wahl. Wahlberg's Flycatcher. 



Platystira affinis, Wahlberg, OfVers. 1855, p. 214. 



Wahlberg, Journal fur Orn. 1857, p. 3. 



Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 866 



(sub P. pririf). 



Finsch, in Trans, of Zool. Soc. vol. vii. p. 315. 



Platysteira affinis, Sharpe's Cat. No. 408. 



This species is very abundant in the Swakop valley ; 

 it is usually seen in pairs about large trees, which it 

 explores carefully and systematically in search of insects. 

 It has at times a peculiar far-sounding note, which a 

 stranger might imagine to be uttered by a bird at a great 

 distance, whilst, in reality, the bird is near at hand. 



The iris is a light lemon-yellow on the inner edge, 

 shading off into greenish grey on the outer circle. 



[Mr. R. B. Sharpe possesses four examples of this Flycatcher 

 collected by Mr. Andersson, two of which are marked as from 

 the vicinity of the Swakop River, one from Objimbinque, and 

 one " West of Tjobis." This species has not been figured. 



Mr. Layard, at page 143 of his ' Catalogue of the Birds of 

 South Africa/ mentions Platysteira pristinaria as a species 

 which Mr. Andersson " brought from Damara Land ; " but I do 



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