528 Mr. G. L. T3ates on the 



coverts are not so large, none of the coverts being entirely 

 white; the throat, breast, and abdomen are pale yellowish- 

 brown (these parts are nearly white in the male). The 

 young bird is dull black, without any white on the wing- 

 coverts, and beneath nearly white. 



Nos. 17G2 and 1763 were shot by myself in the same tree, 

 wheie they were busily flitting about among the twigs 

 looking for insects, more in the manner of a Warbler than 

 of a Flycatcher. 



Platystira cyanea. [Njibesole.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 626 ; 1907, p. 449. 



1 have now heard this bird making noises very simihir to 

 those of Diaphorophyia castanea as already described (' Ibis,' 

 1905, p. 94); that is, a flipping noise, made with its wings 

 during short flights, and a snajjping noise made with its bill 

 while at rest on a perch. Two or three rapid snaps with the 

 bill were made at a time, the mouth being opened wide in 

 making them. This was done by a male, and was evidently 

 done to attract tlic attention of the female. 



DlAPHOROPHY'IA TONSA. 



Bates, Bull. B. O. C. xxvii. p. 86. 



No. 4039. ? , breeding (type of the species). Bitye, Nov. 

 1909. 



No. 3275. ? imm. Assobam, Dec. 1908. 

 ?No. 2970. $ ad. Bitye, March 1908. 



Diaphorophyia chalybea. (Plate IX. fig. 22, egg.) 



Ileich. V. A. ii. p. 492. 



B. chlorophrys Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 469 ; 1907, p. 449. 



Females differ from males only in having less metallic 

 lustre. 



No. 2954, S , was shot with bow and arrow, and brought 

 to me with its nest and two nestlings, Nos. 2955 and a. 

 The nest, like that of Tchitrea, is a little circular cup of 

 fibres bound about with cobwebs, but is not so compact and 

 neat as the Abelebele's nest. It measures 40 or 45 mm. in 

 diameter at the inside of the rim. 



