Compendium der neu bcfichriphonon Gattungen und Arten. 393 



284. Monarcha rufo-casfanea. 



E. P. llamsay, Proc. Linii. Soc. N. S. Wales. Vol. 4. Pt. 1. 

 1879. p. 79. 



Adult male. — The wliole of tlio head, throat and neck, sidcs 

 of tlie ehest and all the upper surface of the body, black, slightly 

 glossy; wiiigs and tail blackish brown, under surface dull brown, 

 the inner webs of the quills inclining to buff on thcir basal margins ; 

 the ehest and all the under surface of the body, under vviiig and 

 under tail-coverts dark rieh rufous; bill bluish hörn color, the 

 margins and tip of lower raandible whitish. 



Total length 5,8; wing 3,1; tail 2,65; tarsus 0,57 in.; bill 

 from forehead 0,8; from gape 0,85; from nostril to tip 0,5. 



Hab.: Lange, Gaudalcanar. 



285. Muscicapa Ussheri. 



K. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1882. p. 591. 



Ad. General colour above light brown, slightly more fulvescent 

 brown on the lower back and rump; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 a little more ashy than the back; greater coverts, primary coverts, 

 and quills dusky brown, externally edged with the same brown as 

 the back; tail feathers dusky brown, externally edged with brown 

 like the back, and very narrowly fringed with whitish along the 

 tip and near the end of the inner web; nasal plumes and lores 

 dull white, extending above the fore part of the eye so as to form 

 a slig'ht supercilian streak; eyelid and feathers below the eye dull 

 white; the ear coverts very light brown with dull whitish shaft-lines; 

 cheeks and throat buffy white, with a finge of fawn colour on the 

 fore neck ; breast, abdomen, and under tail coverts white, the latter 

 •with light-brown centres; sides of breast, flanks and thighs light 

 brown tinged with fawn-colour; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ochreous buff; quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web; bill hörn -brown, whitish at the base of the lower 

 mandible. 



Tot. lg. 5 inches; culm. 0,55; wing 2,8; tail 2,2; tars. 0,85. 



Hab.: Abokobi, Gold Coast. 

 4- 286. Myiadestes dominicanus. 



L. Stejneger, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus. 1882. June 5. p. 22. 



Above slaty plumbeous , with a very faint tinge of olivaceous 

 on head and back; lores and a narrow stripe above the eyes 

 conspicuously suflfused with olivaceous; almost tlie whole maiar 

 stripe whitish, the feathers the lower end tipped with chestnut; 

 chin white, throat pure chestnut; breast, flanks, and abdomen, 

 except the lower middle part of the latter, ashgray, duller on the 

 breast, more whitish on the abdomen, and very faintly washed with 

 olivaceous, especially on the flanks, where more tinged with rufous ; 

 lower middle of abdomen, crissum, and under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut rufous; wings and tail as in M. sanctae-luciae, the light basal 

 spot on the outer web of the innermost primaries being very con- 

 spicous and well defined; the black speculum on the secondaries 



