590 MR. SHARPE ON A NEW SPECIES OF MUSCICAPA. [June 20, 
from the crown by a narrow blackish line; feathers in front of the 
eye dusky blackish ; below the eye a white spot; ear-coverts rusty 
brown, dusky on the upper and hinder margin; cheeks white, 
separated from the ear-coverts by a broad dusky streak, and from 
the throat by another distinct moustache of dusky black ; sides of 
neck like the head and hind neck; fore neck and chest white 
tinged with sandy buff, and mottled with triangular spots of dusky 
blackish, inclining to narrow hair-like streaks on the breast ; the 
latter white, as well as the abdomen; sides of body and flanks deep 
sandy buff; thighs white; under tail-coverts light buff; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills dusky below, whitish along 
the inner edge of the quills. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0°6, 
wing 2°45, tail 2°2, tarsus 0°95. 
11. On a new Species of Muscicapa from Western Africa. 
By R. BownrEr Snare, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c., Depart- 
ment of Zoology, British Museum. 
[Received June 20, 1882.] 
My late friend Governor Ussher, during his last visit to the Gold 
Coast, which terminated so fatally for him, devoted considerable 
time to collecting birds, as was his wont ; and both to Captain Shelley 
and myself he wrote frequently respecting his collections, which 
included many rare species from Denkera, and from the eastern 
districts of the Gold Coast, Aguapim, &c. In one letter he speaks 
of having got six specimens of Picathartes gymnophthalmus; and it 
is certain that, if it had reached England, the collection would have 
proved to be of great interest. Unfortunately, since his death 
the birds have disappeared, and I am informed by his friend Capt. 
Barrow, who has interested himself in the matter, that there was 
no such collection remaining among his effects. 
Nevertheless a few birds have arrived in London bearing labels in 
the late Governor’s handwriting; and certain of them have been 
offered for sale to the British Museum, which has acquired some of the 
most interesting specimens. As these were offered by most respect- 
able agents, who had acquired them in the ordinary way of business, 
there is not the slightest proof that they formed part of the late 
Governor’s large collection ; for they may very probably have been 
given away by him before his death, and have been thus disposed of 
in England. They were all birds of dull coloration ; but amongst 
several others of interest there appears to be one Flycatcher 
which is undescribed, and which I propose to call after my late 
friend, to whom I myself and ornithologists generally were so much 
indebted for his exertions in collecting, often in countries where 
ie climate rendered the task one of considerable difficulty and 
anger. 
