1882.] MR. SHARPE ON A NEW SPECIES OF MUSCICAPA. 591 
MuscIcaPa USSHERI, Sp. nD. 
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. 150) as follows :— 
a, With no white bar on the wing and with no white at base 
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_ a’, Breast white, with brown streaks &e. 
Gt, Aly DFOWM WCsecdusaisesnce cach scooesastsukenangrapencaaa grisola, p. 151. 
Glas Dani DO WIA Cie. sasenccveas tswaxccnsusa>theatsbeenteren> griseisticta, p, 153, 
_ Y. Breast uniform, without streaks. 
o', General colour above brown, ashy grey or slate- 
colour: size large, wing 2°8 to 31 inches. 
a'". Bill horn-brown, the base of the lower mandible 
yellowish white. 
a‘, Under wing-covertsand axillaries brown ; upper 
HURLAGO PLOW caer isanvecs eases aascrc- anne dipreseeat aquatica, p, 154. 
_ 64 Under wing-coverts aud axillaries ochreous 
buff; upper surface brown............ccsseceeererers ussheri, sp. DOV. 
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