360 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY ON [Juae 18, 



browner. Total length 4 inches, culmen 05, wing 2*2, tail 1*6, 

 tarsus Ov. 



Adult female. Differs greatly from P. molitor, and much re- 

 sembles P. capensis in the colouring of the upper parts. Forehead, 

 crown, and back of the neck grey ; lores and sides of the head 

 black, separated from the grey forehead and crown by a partially 

 defined white stripe ; mantle olive-shaded brown as in P. capensis ; 

 lower back partially mottled with white ; wings dark brown, the 

 least series washed with the same colour as the mantle ; some of the 

 median and greater coverts fawn-colour, forming a patch on the 

 wing ; margins of quills pale, passing into fawn-colour on the inner 

 secondaries ; tail black, the feathers edged with white and with white 

 angular tips ; the white on the outer tail-feather never extends across 

 the outer web, as it always does in P. molitor and P. capensis. 

 Underparts and sides of the neck white, strongly washed with 

 fawn-colour, mostly towards the base of the feathers of the throat 

 and sides of the chest ; under surface of the quills dusky, with white 

 inner margins ; under wing-coverts white, with the outer half of the 

 least and median series ashy shaded black. Bill black ; legs browner. 

 Total length 3*8 inches, culmen Oo, wing 2'4, tail 1*5, tarsus 0'7. 



Kilimanjaro, S 2 , 7000 ft., 6000 ft., August. 



I have no hesitation in referring these two specimens to the same 

 species ; their tails exactly agree and present a character by whicli 

 they may with certainty be separated from both P. molitor and P. 

 capensis, of both of which species they unite certain characteristics. 



25. MUSCICAPA C^RTJLESCENS. 



Muscicapa ccerulescens, Hartl., Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus.iv. p. 154 



(1879). 



Teita, August 26. 



This specimen differs from six others with which I have compared 

 it, in having the greater series of wing-coverts distinctly edged with 

 white and broadly tipped with that colour, and the pale ed^es of the 

 quills decidedly broader and whiter. Total length 4"95 inches, cul- 

 men 0"5, wing 2"9, tail 2*55, tarsus 0"6. 



I prefer to regard the slight characters above enumerated as 

 rather a sign of immaturity than of specific value. 



2^. Cryptolopha umbrovirens. 



Cryptolopha umbrovirens (RUpp.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. 

 p. 401, pi. 12. fig. 2. 



Kilimanjaro, COOO ft., August 8. 



27. Terpsiphone cristata. 



Terpsipkone cristata (Gm.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 577 ; 

 id. Ibis, 1888, p. 299. 



Terpsipkone ferreti, Bohm, J. f. O. 18S3, p. 170; Schal. ^ c. 

 p. 353 ; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 353 ; id. J, f, O. 1885, 

 p. 129 ; Rchw. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 63. 



