95 [Vol. xxv. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert described the following new species 

 and subspecies of birds from Africa : — 



MlJSCICAPA ANSORGEI, Sp. m 



Adult female. Upperside uniform plumabeous~grey ; upper 

 tail-coverts darker, nearly slate-colour. E emiges dark brown, 

 outwardly edged, with brownish-grey ; inner secondaries 

 brownish-grey; upper wing-coverts dark grey, edged with 

 plumbeous-grey like the back ; feathers of the head and hind- 

 neck with concealed whitish-grey longitudinal spots near the 

 base. Tail rounded, rectrices dark slate-colour. Sides of 

 head, throat, and jugulum pale grey; sides of the body still 

 paler, shading into dirty white in the middle of the abdomen. 

 Under wing-coverts white, those nearest to the carpal edge 

 brown, edged with white ; inner lining of the wing pale 

 brownish-grey. Iris dark brown ; upper mandible black, 

 lower pale pinkish-brown with blackish edges ; feet slate-blue. 



Culmen 14 mm. ; wing 60 ; tail 47; tarsus 18. 



Hab. Gaboon. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ? . No. 722. Ombrolema, 

 Ogowe River, 27. vii. 07. Collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge. 



Obs. This new species, though very inconspicuous, appears 

 to have no very near ally. The bill agrees in shape with 

 that of Muscicapa brevicauda, Grant, but the latter has the 

 throat whitish, a white line over the lores and eye, and is not 

 of so dark a grey on the upperside. [Cf. Bull. B. O. C. xix. 

 p. 107 (1907).] 



RlPARIA PALUDICOLA DOHERTYI, Subsp. n. 



Adult male and female. Differs from R. p. minor (Cab.) in 

 being darker on the upperside and much darker and browner 

 on the throat and breast. In coloi'ation it resembles R. p. 

 paltidicola (Vieill.) from South Africa, but is much smaller, 

 being nearly similar in size to R.p. minor. Wing 96-100 mm. 



Hab. British East Africa. 



Type in the Tring Museum: $ . Mau Escarpment, British 

 East Africa, 8000 feet, September 11)00. Collected by 

 W. Doherty. 



