212 Major H. J. Kelsall on 



Bias musicus. 



This handsome Crested Flycatcher is not very common. 

 The call of the male is very distinctive and may be repre- 

 sented by the syllables ^Hit-tiu, tit-tiu." The female has only 

 a harsh "churr." A nest which I saw was placed on a bare 

 branch of a locust tree^ about twenty feet from the ground^ 

 and contained two young. 



Irides bright yellow ; bill dark horn ; legs and. feet 

 pale greenish yellow. Flight undulating. The young are 

 chestnut in colour like the female, the young males 

 assuming the black plumage of the adult male at the first 

 autumn moult. 



Artomyias ussheri. 



I only once saw this species^ near Rotifunk, Several 

 individuals were flying about a tall bare tree, and I obtained 

 two specimens. 



Tchitrea nigriceps. 



Frequents chiefly dense bush and forest, but is also some- 

 times found in orchards and gardens. 



A nest with three eggs (now in the British Museum) 

 which I found on the 1st of May^ was in a fork of a bare 

 branch of an orange tree^ about six feet from the ground, 

 a few yards from a native house. The nest was composed 

 of fine grass, lined with fine black fibres, and plastered 

 outside with spiders^ web and egg-cases. 



The song is a loud clear whistle of several notes. 

 Breeding males do not al\^ays have the elongated tail- 

 feathers. 



One specimen (No. 850) appears to be a hybrid. 



Irides very dark brown ; bill^ light smalt blue in the 

 adult, blackish in the young. The blue fades and the bill 

 turns black very soon after death. Inside of the mouth 

 bright gamboge. 



Elminia longicauda. 



Resident and common everywhere about Freetown. The 

 dead bird gives but little idea of the beauty of this species 



