200 Ant Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 



spot less distinct and the black collar on the fore neck entirely 

 absent. Total length 5,8, culmen 0,55, wing 2,8, tail 2,5 incli. 



Hab.: Ceylon. 



Lalage inela.notlwraor. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 91. 



Similar to L. sykesi but with a very much larger bill ; the 

 whole head and neck and the throat and ehest glossy steel-black, 

 extending much further down than in L. sykesi. Total length 

 7,5 inches, culmen 0,8, wing 4,2, tail 3,2, tarsus 0,8. 



Hab. : Madras. 



Muscicapa cinerascens. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 155. 



Similar to M. coerulescens but more ashy grey and not so 

 blue, especially on the sides of the face and breast; diifering 

 from the last-named species in being duller coloured and in 

 having a longer and rather thinner bill. Total length 5,6 inch., 

 culmen 0,5, wing 2,8, tail 2,2, tarsus 0,65. 



Hab.: Gold-Coast. 



Neomyias gen. n. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV, p. 342 (1879). 



(Ohne Diagnose. — Typus: Mhipidura euryura Müll.) 



Piezorhynchus vidua. 



H. B. Tristram, Ibis Vol. III, No. 12. Oct. 1879, p. 439. 



(f: capite nigro resplendente; collari albo, dorso nigro; 

 uropygio albo, cauda nigra, rectricibus tribus externis albo 

 terminatis; tectricibus superioribus albis, mediis margine nigro 

 circumdatis; remigibus nigris; mento et thorace nigris; pectore, 

 abdomine et crisso albis. Long, tot. 5,95 inches, alae 3, 

 caudae 3, tarsi 0,8. — Hab.: Solomon Islands. 



PoUomyias gen. n. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV, p. 201 (1879). 



Of the general aspect and style of plumage of the Red- 

 breasted Flycatchers {^Inscicapa, section Erythrosterna), but ha- 

 ving long wings as in Petroeca and Muscicapa. — Typus: Mo- 

 tacilla Inteola Fall. 



Rhinomyias gen. n. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 367. 



(Ohne Diagnose, — Typus: Älcippe pectoralis Salv.) 



Rhipidura brenchleyi 



R. B. Sharpe, Cataloge of the Birds in the Coli, of Brit. 

 Mus. Vol. IV, 1879, p. 311, 



General colour above dark slaty grey, the upper tailcoverts 

 blacker; tail-feathers dark brown, the two centre feathers with 

 dark brown shafts, all the others with white shafts and tipped 

 with ashy white, this latter increasing in extend towards the 

 outermost feather; wings dark brown, the wing-coverts edged 



