490 DE. E. B. sH.iEPE ON BiEDS [May 21, 



97. MUSCICAPA GEISOIiA. 



Muscicapa qrisola, L. ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 439 (1871) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv, p. 151 (1879). 



a. c5' ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 28, 1894. Iris dark brown. 



The Common Flycatcher visits Egypt in August and September, 

 and is said by Heuglin to extend southwards to Nubia, Senar, and 

 Abyssiuia. In October he fouud it not rare on the Adel and 

 Souiali coasts, and at Aden in December. Neitber Antinori nor 

 Eagazzi appear to have met with the species in Shoa, nor did 

 Mr. Jackson meet with it on his journey to Uganda ; but in German 

 East Africa the species has been detected in all kinds of localities 

 from the coast to the Victoria Nyanza, so that there is not the 

 slightest doubt that the species migrates throughout the whole 

 country between the lakes and the coast-region. 



98. Paeisosia boehmi. 



I'arisoma boeJimi, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1882, p. 200; id. Vog. 

 Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 215 (1894). 



a. d ad. Hargeisa, July 16, 1894. Iris straw-colour. 



This interesting species, which Dr. Eeichenow considers to be a 

 Tit, but which I think to be a Elycatcher, has not yet been found 

 in British East Africa or in Shoa, but is recorded by Dr. Eeichenow 

 from Ugogo, Wembaere, Mpvvapwa, Pare Mountains, and Masai- 

 land. Its presence in Somali-land was therefore unexpected, but 

 it doubtless occurs in the intervening region. 



99. Teepsiphone ceistata. 



Terpsiphone melano(jastra (Swains.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 

 p. 441 (1871). 



Terpsiphone crisiata, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 354 (1879) ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 124 (1884); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 400; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) p. 234 (1888) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 504. 



a. c? ad.; b. cJ imm. Sbebeli, Aug. 26, 1894. Iris brown; 

 eyelids bright blue ; legs and bill bluish grey. 



c. c? juv. Sheik Husein, Sept. 19, 1894. Iris brown ; legs grey. 



d. d" imm. Darro Mountains, Nov. 18, 1894. Iris brown ; 



bill, eyehds, and legs bright grey. 



e. d ad. ?, Jan. 10, 1895. Ii-is brown ; bill and legs 



bluish grey. 

 Heuglin says that the home of this Paradise Flycatcher extends 

 from the Abyssinian coast4and in lat. 16°-17° south to the 

 upper districts of the White Nile and its tributaries. In the 

 wooded portions of Abyssinia it ascends to 8000 feet, and is 

 plentiful in that country, as also in Senar and in Southern Kor- 

 dofan, on the Sobat, Djur, and Gazelle Eivers, as well as on the 

 Bahr-el-Djebel. Antinori considered the species to be resident, 

 but Heuglin believes that it may be partly migratory, moving at 



