Birds from Sierra Leone. 211 



Hyliota flavigastra. 



The oaly specimen in my collection was obtained by 

 Dr. Bower in the Karine District. 



Diaphorophyia hormopliora. 



I never saw this bird except iu dense bush or forest. 



Irides dark brown ; bill black; legs and feet purplish slate. 



Tliere is a narrow white superciliary streak concealed by 

 the eye-wattle, which is of a purplish-black colour (see text- 

 fig. 2 b). 



Length in flesh, 4 inches. 



Text-fig. 2. 



Heads of (A) Diapliorophyia blissetti and (B) D. Iwrmophora 

 showing the eye-wattles. 



Diaphorophyia blissetti. 



This species, like the preceding, inhabits dense bush and 

 appears to be more or less local. I never saw it in the 

 Peninsula and only in one or two places in the Protectorate. 

 Eye- wattle bright turquoise-blue (see text-fig. 2 a). 



Platysteira cyanea. 



Resident and common, especially about orchards and 

 gardens. 



Bill, legs, and feet black. The scarlet wattle over the 

 eye is about "2 of an inch Avide. 



A nest which I found on the 2nd of May was placed on a 

 low outer branch of a small coffee tree, four feet from the 

 ground, in a garden within ten yards of a native house. It 

 was constructed of coarse and fine grass fibre and leaves, lined 

 with fine grass and with some pieces of lichen attached ou 

 the outside. Outside diameter 2| in. ; inside If by | in. 

 deep. Eggs two : size 19 by 14 mm. 



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