304 Capt. G. E. Shelley on four new 
February, 1872’), the present Hast-African species has the 
bill slightly stronger, and pale brown instead of black ; the 
upper half of the head and the nape is dark brown, and the 
back is also darker and decidedly less rufous. The under- 
parts, the wings, and the tail agree well in the two species, 
and there is no important difference in their measurements, 
2. PHYLLOSTREPHUS SHARPEI, Sp. n. 
Entire upper parts rufous-shaded brown, the rufous shade 
rather more intense on the upper tail-coverts ; wings dark 
brown, with all the coverts and the secondaries shading imto 
rufous-brown towards their margins, the primaries edged 
with paler and less rufous-brown; tail-feathers with almost 
obsolete pale ends, excepting the outer feather on each side, 
which has its ends and a narrow margin to the imner web 
buff. Underparts, and a partially defined eyebrow, creamy 
white, shaded on the sides of the crop with rufous-brown, 
and on the thighs, flanks, and under tail-coverts with pale 
brown; under surface of the wings dark brown, with broad 
inner margins to the quills and to all the coverts rufous-buff ; 
bill dark brown, fading into white along the keel and towards 
the base of the lower mandible; tarsi and feet, apparently, 
leaden brown. ‘Total length 7:4 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 3, 
tail 3°4, tarsus 0°85. 
The type was obtained by Dr. Kirk at Dar-es-Salaam, 
This is the third species known of the genus Phyllostrephus, 
and may at once be recognized from its congeners by the 
strong rufous shade of the plumage, 
I have named this bird in honour of my friend Mr. R, 
Bowdler Sharpe, whois at present engaged in writing a mono- 
graph of the Timeline birds. 
3. BARBATULA OLIVACEA, sp.n. (Plate VII.) 
General plumage olive-green ; forehead and crown dusky 
black, shading into olive-green on the occiput and nape; 
quills dark brown, with broad olive edges to their outer webs, 
increasing in extent from the third primary ; the outer two 
primaries not edged with olive; both webs of the inner 
