390 Ant. Reiclienow und Hermau Schalow: 



This species comes nearest to Gotüe paludicola of South Africa, 

 but differs in the following particulars: 



1. The general colour above is altogether darker, and ap- 

 proaclies more to blackish brown. 



2. In the adult South- African bird the brown colour commences 

 at the chin and speads over the whole fore neck and breast in 

 one uniform tint, the lower breast and eutire abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts being pure white. In the Madagascar species the 

 general . aspect of the under surface is uniform ashy brown, with 

 a little white on the lower abdomen, and the under tail-coverts 

 are white. The throat, however, is light ashy, contrasting with 

 the dark colour of the rest of the under surface; and in this con- 

 trast consists the principal distinguishing character ofCotüe Cowani 



Tot. L. 4,7 inches; wing 3,65; tail 1,9; tarsus 0,4. 

 Hab,: Madagascar. 



Farn. MUSCIOAPIDAE, 



275. Aethomyias guttata. 



R. B. Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoology. Vol. 16. No. 94. 

 July 1884. p. 432. 



General colour above olive-green, a little clearer and lighter 

 on the lowrer back and rump, the head rather more dusky olive; 

 least wing-coverts like the back, the greater series dull ashy brovsrn, 

 externally washed with olive-green; quills dull ashy brown, externally 

 edged with olive-green, inclining to olive-brown on the margins 

 of the primaries; upper tail-coverts olive-brown; quills brown, 

 externally edged v\^ith olive-brown, with a slight subterminal shade 

 of blackish; lores whitish, tinged with brown at the base of the 

 forehe.ad , eyelid and ear-coverts light brown , with indistinct paler 

 shaft-lines on the latter; cheeks and throat white; the remainder 

 of the under surface of body pale yellow; the fore neck and ehest 

 washed with dusky, the sides of the breast and flanks dull olive- 

 green , the breast rather broadly streaked with dusky brown ; the 

 cheeks mottled with dusky tips to the feathers, the throat covered 

 with distinct ovate blackish spots; thighs dull olive; under tail- 

 coverts pale yellow, with pale centres of dusky brown ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries olive-greenish ; quills ashy brown below, ashy 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web; bill light brown, paler 

 on the lower mandible; legs dark brown (in skin). 



Tot. L. 4,2 inches ; culm. 0,55 ; wing 2,4 ; tail 1,9 ; tarsus 0,75. 



Hab.: Choqueri district (New Guinea). 



276. Bradyornis grisea. 



Ant. Reichenow, J. Orn. 30. Jahrg. 1882. 2. Heft. p.211. 



Superne brunnescente canus ; loris et gastraeo toto albis, jugulo 

 et corporis lateribus brunnescentibus ; remigibus, tectribus et rectri- 

 cibus fuscis albido-marginatis; subalaribus et remigura marginibus 

 interioribus obsolete isabellinis ; rostro et pedibus nigris ; iride fusca. 



Hab.: Mgunda Mkali. 



Long. tot. 148; ala 85; cauda 65; rictus 17 mm. 



