1882.] MR, SHARPE ON A NEW SPECIES OF MUSCICAPA. 591 



Mtjscicapa ussheri, sp. n. 



Adult. General colour above light brown, slightly more fulvescent 

 brown on the lower back and rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 a little more ashy than the back ; greater coverts, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dusky brown, externally edged with the same brown as 

 the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, externally edged with brown 

 like the back, and very narrowly fringed with whitish along the tip 

 and near the end of the inner web ; nasal plumes and lores dull 

 • white, extending above the fore part of the eye so as to form a 

 slight superciliary streak ; eyelid and feathers below the eye dull 

 white ; the ear-coverts very light brown with dull whitish shaft-lines ; 

 cheeks and throat buffy white, with a tinge of fawn-colour on the 

 fore neck ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the latter 

 with light-brown centres; sides of breast, flanks and thighs light 

 brown tinged with fawn-colour ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ochreous buff ; quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web ; bill horn-brown, whitish at the base of the lower 

 mandible. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2*8, tail 2*2, 

 tarsus 0*85. 



Hab. Abokobi, Gold Coast. Feb. 1880. 



This species has the appearance of an Erythrosterna ; but the 

 colour of its tail separates it from any of the species with which I 

 am acquainted, otherwise it comes into the " Key to the Species " of 

 Muscicapa in my ' Catalogue ' (vol. iv. p. 1 50) as follows : — 



a. With no white bar on the wing and with no white at base 

 of tail, 

 a'. Breast white, with brown Btreaks &c. 



a". Ashy brown &c. grisola, p. lf)l. 



b". Dark brown &o griseisticta, ■p. \5Z. 



. v. Breast uniform, without streaks. 



c". General colour above brown, ashy grey or slate- 

 colour : size large, wing 2'8 to 3"1 inches. 

 a'". Bill horn-brown, the base of the lower mandible 

 yellowish white. 

 a*. Under wing-coverts and axillariesbrown; upper 



surface brown aquaiiea, p. 154. 



J*. Under wing-coverts aud axillaries ochreous 

 buff; upper surface brown wssAm, sp. nov. 



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