1884.] SPECIES OF FLYCATCHERS. 231 



neck; breast pale rufescent brown, wasbed with ashy, the centre of 

 the breast rather paler and resembling the abdomen, wliicb is clear 

 creamy buff, deeper and slightly inclining to tawny on the under 

 tail-coverts ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs decidedly more tawny 

 rufous ; axillaries and under wing-coverts clear tawny rufous ; quills 

 dusky below, ashy rufous along the inner web ; " bill horn-colour ; 

 feet ashy; iris dusky" (Antinori). Total length 4*55 inches, 

 culmeu 0*4, wing 2'4, tail 1*9, tarsus 0*55. 



The second species of which a specimen has been lent to me by 

 Count Salvadori has been, as pointed out to me by him, unaccountably 

 left out of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' both by myself and by Mr. See- 

 bohm. It is the Drymophila abyssinica of Riippell, a species placed by 

 Von Heuglin in the genus Sylvia, but I consider it, after examination, 

 to be a true Lioptilus. I also take the present opportunity to correct 

 another omission in the ' Catalogue,' viz. that of Parisoma or JSyitha- 

 lopsis yalinieri, a large species which I also refer to Lioptilus. The 

 latter genus has therefore at present four species, and the ' Key to 

 the species ' will require amendment as follows : — 



a. Under tail-coverts not chestnut ; white or ashy or 



olive. 



a'. Head differing in colour from the back, which is 



warm brown ; sides of face, throat, and breast 



slaty grey. 



a". Crown of head black, contrasting with the 



back ; upper and under mandible yellowish 



white in skin mffrieapMus, p. 231. 



b". Grown of head dark slaty grey ; under surface 

 of body entirely grey with olive-brown flanks ; 

 back warm brown ; bill horn-brown in skin, 



paler on lower mandible abyssinicv.s, p, 231. 



b'. Head like the back, ashy olive ; throat whitish ; 

 breast and flanks ashy brown, the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts white olivasccns, p. 232. 



b. Under tail-coverts chestnut; head ashy brown like 



the back ; forehead hoary whitish yalinieri, p. 2«'32. 



1. Lioptilus nigricapillus (V.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 262. 



2. Lioptilus abyssinicus. 



Drymophila abyssinica, Riipp. Neue Wirb. Taf. 40. fig. 2 (1835). 



Vurruca abyssinica, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 5/ (1845). 



Aedon abyssinicus (Riipp.); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 25 (185b). 



Sylvia habessinica, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 313 (1&69). 



Adult female (Sciolalit, Sboa, April 1, 18/8; Antinori). General 

 colour above warm brown, rather more ruddy on the lower back and 

 rump ; lesser wing-coverts rather more tawny rufous than the back ; 

 median and greater series dusky brown edged with tawny rufous ; 

 bastard-wing lighter and more ashy brown, washed externally with 

 faint rufous ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged with 

 tawny rufous, inclining to ashy grey towards the end of the 

 primaries ; the inner secondaries more ashy, edged with the same 

 colour as the back ; tail-feathers ashy brown, edged with olive ; 



