246 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
Alseonax undulata, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 52. 
Muscicapa minuta, Heugl. (nec Schilling) Syst. Uebers. no. 296. 
minima, Heugl. Journ. f. Ornith. 1862, p. 301. 
a, Rayrayguddy. 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Lat. rostr. ad basin.  Tars. 
gi 5 yl gl! 3 4m 3 a" gir 
2 5 1 9 34 33 7 (M. minima, Heugl.) 
The single specimen in the collection of Mr. Jesse agrees in every respect with the 
representation of Levaillant’s L’ondulé (male), and proves evidently the occurrence of 
that southern species in North-east Africa. Heuglin’s IZ. minima from central Abys- 
sinia, of which the Bremen Museum possesses a typical specimen from Gondar, is also 
undoubtedly the same. That specimen has the under surface a little darker, washed 
with brownish fulvous, and shows the obsolete dark markings on the breast more 
decidedly than the specimen in Mr. Jesse’s collection, which is of a rather brownish 
white underneath.—0. F. 
[Only observed at the above locality.—W. J.] 
92. 'TERPSIPHONE MELANOGASTRA (Sws. ). 
Muscipeta melanogastra, Sws. B. W. Afr. ii. (1837) p. 55. 
“ Tschitrea melampyra, Verr.”’ Hartl. W. Afr. p. 90. 
Muscipeta ferreti, Guér. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 162. 
melanogastra, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 61. no. 211; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 302. 
Tschitrea melanogastra, Brehm, Habesch, p. 215. no. 71. 
Terpsiphone melanogastra, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 309. 
asd. 
6. S. Sooroo. April 5 (no. 140). 
c. 2. Sooroo. April 5 (no. 129). 
d. 3. Kokai. July 18 (no. 813). 
e,f. 2. Kokai. July 13 (nn. 1912 et 1753). 
A careful comparison of these birds with specimens from Western Africa has convinced 
us that there is no difference. The females in the collection agree in every respect 
with the types of 7. melampyra, Verr., in the Bremen Museum. The male marked 
a has the two middle tail-feathers very much developed (13 inches), and white; the 
upper tail-coverts are also white, but the back is chestnut. ‘The male, no. 140, has the 
two middle tail-feathers less developed, but also white; in the male, no. 813, all the 
tail-feathers are chestnut, like the back. The females have no prolonged tail-feathers. 
Antinori’s interesting observations prove that there is a very great variation in colour 
in this species according to the season of the year and age of the bird (see his Cata- 
logue, pp. 46-50). A description of all the known African species of the genus 
Terpsiphone will be given in our ‘ Birds of East Africa. —O. F. 
