788 MR. R. BOW'DLER SHARPE ON NEW FLYCATCHERS. [JuilC 21, 



present, variously developed, in the genera in question, together 

 with at least a rudiment of a memhrana semilunaris. If a bird 

 existed with its tracheal rings in no way modified at the bifurcation, 

 with the bronchi, in their course thence forward to the lungs, com- 

 pletely encircled by tracheiform rings of simple form, and with no 

 vocal cords or semilunar membrane, it might be said with truth that 

 in such a form " there is no lower larynx." But, so far as I know, no 

 existing bird possesses so simple an arrangement, though some of 

 the Cathartidae approach such a type very nearly. 



8. On some Flycatchers lately added to the Collection of 

 the British Museum. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S.^ he, Department of Zoology, British. Museum. 



[Eeceived June 17, 1881.] 



(Plate LXVII.; 



The acqiiisition of the Gould collection has naturally added a large 

 number of skins to the national collection ; and it has increased our 

 series of Flycatchers considerably, so that I am enabled to correct 

 some errors which have crept into the Catalogue of Birds. 



Genus Zeocephus, Bp. 



{Cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. vol. iv. p. 343.) 



I have now for the first time seen the adult male of Zeocephus 

 rufus ; and I find it to be a long-tailed bird, resembling a Terpsi- 

 phone ; and it is doubtful now whether Zeocephus can be separated 

 as a genus from the above-named one. The male of Zeocephus 

 rufus is similar to the bird described by me (/. c), which n)ust have 

 been a female, but differs in its richer chestnut plumage and in 

 its elongated central tail-feathers, which measure 7 inches in length. 



Terpsiphone sMiTHii (Frasef). 



Muscipeta smithii, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 34 ; Allen and 

 Thomps. Exped. Niger, ii. p. 492. 



Tchilrea smithii, Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 91 ; Cass. Pr. Philad. 

 Acad. 1859, p. 42 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 168 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. 

 i. p. 333, no. 5018. 



Terpsiphone smithii, Finsch and Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 312, note. 



The type of this species is in the Gould collection ; and I was 

 surprised to find what a good species it really is, and how different 

 from T. rufiventris, with which I had united it. In fact it comes 

 nearest to T. tricolor, from which it differs in its rufous back. 



Malurtjs cvanochlamys, sp. n. 



Malurus cy uncus, Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 286 (nee Ellis). 

 Adult male. Similar to M. cyaneus of New South Wales, and, 

 like that species, having the head, ear-coverts, and mantle of the same 



