026 ]Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on 



Family jNIuscicapid.e. 



202. MUSCICAPA GHISOLA. 



Muscicapa grisola Linn. ; Reich, ii. p. 449 (1903). 

 The Spotted Flycatcher was met Avith at Nono, near the 

 Gibbe River, in April, and at Walamo in September. 



203. Alseonax murtnus pumilus. 



Alseonux murinus piwiilus Reich. ; Reich, ii. p. 459 (1903) ; 

 Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, p. 206. 



Alseonaw rimrinus djumdjcunensis Neumann, J. £. O. 1905, 

 p. 20G. 



Alseonax pumilus Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. 

 p. 391 (1910). 



Examples of the Small Brown Flycatcher were procured 

 at Gomma and Kaffa in Alay and June, but were not met 

 with elsewhere. It might have been pointed out when 

 describing the series of this bird from Ruwenzori, that the 

 immature (which is easily recognised by the buff tips to the 

 wing-coverts, etc.) has the middle of the breast and belly 

 washed with buff, and in that stage of plumage closely 

 resembles the adult of typical A. murinus. It seems 

 doubtful if ^. m. pumilus is really separable from A. murinus 

 and is not based merely on fully adult examples. The 

 amount of white on the throat varies much in different 

 individuals. The two forms A. murinus and A. m. pumilus 

 seem to occur side by side throughout their range. 

 Probal)ly both should be united with A. minimus (Heugl.) 

 described in 1862. 



As Prof. Neumann has already pointed out, it is probable 

 tliat the narrowness of the base of the bill in the type- 

 specimen of A. minimus is not normal. 



204. Hyliota flavigastra. 



Ihjliota flavigastra Swains.; Reich, ii. p. 473 (1903); 

 Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, p. 209. 



The Buff-bellied Flycatcher seems to be rather a rare 

 bird ; it was met with on the Didessa River and in Kaffa. 



In the male the bill and legs are black, but in skins from 



