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[Iris dark brown, eyelid turquoise-blue; beak slate-colour, skin at the gape same as 
eyelid; legs and feet slate-colour, toes black. 
I did not get any specimens of the male bird with the two white tail-feathers in 
yery good condition, though an officer of my acquaintance obtained a good many. I 
did not see one with a white tail during my Bogos trip in July and August; possibly 
this distinction is carried only in the breeding-season, all the white-tailed specimens 
having been obtained in April and previously.—W. J.] 
93. PLATYSTIRA PRIRIT (Vieill.). 
Muscicapa molitor, Hahn, Vg. aus Asien, etc. (1822), Liefer. xx. t. 2. 
Platystira melanoleuca et P. molitor, Licht. Nomencl. p. 20. 
pririt, Hartl. W. Afr. p. 94; Heugl. Faun. des Roth. Meer. no. 120; Finsch & Hartl. Végel 
Ostafr. p. 314. no. 147. 
a. 6. Waliko. July 27 (no. 460). 
6. g. Undel. July 27. 
c,d. Young. Waliko. July 27. 
e. d. Rairo. August 13 (no. 58). 
The two old males (a and )) agree in every respect with specimens from Damaraland 
and Gaboon in the Bremen Museum. The specimen e, marked male, has instead of 
a black a broad chestnut band across the throat, and the indistinct superciliary stripe 
pale fulvous—differences which are considered to be peculiar to the female. The two 
specimens c and d are young birds, apparently having left the nest only a short time. 
They have all the feathers on the crown, and some on the back, spotted with pale 
brownish white, as in our common Flycatcher; and the secondaries and tectrices are 
margined with pale brownish. In the one there is an indication of a chestnut cross 
band on the throat; in the other the throat-feathers have only pale brownish apical 
spots, not forming a distinct cross band.—O. F. 
[Iris lemon-yellow. 
This species common up the pass to Senafé. I cannot see any difference between 
this bird and P. senegalensis on comparing my specimens.—V. J.] 
94. PLATYSTIRA SENEGALENSIS (Linn.). 
Platyrhynchus velatus, Vieill. 
Platystira succincta, Licht. Nomencl. p. 20 (9). 
— senegalensis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 61. no. 212; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 303; Hartl. W. 
Afr. p. 94; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 317. no. 148. 
3. Waliko. August 2 (no. 1275). 
The only specimen in the collection of Mr. Jesse is marked as male, and is of great 
interest, because it has not a black but a dark chestnut cross band on the throat, 
showing that this character does not belong only to the female. Otherwise it agrees 
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