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77(c Birds of Gambia 
Short-tailed, rather aquat-looking little birds, about five inches long, 
whose chief characteristic is the presence of long fluffy white feathers on the 
rump. The male is black above, except for pure white rump and wing 
coverts ; below pale buff. The female is grey above where the male is black 
but has the same soft rump-feathers and buff under surface. 
PhiWMira cyanea. COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 
Ratige. West Africa, Senegambia to Cameroons. ( H.L.) 
The noticeable features of this species are the marked differences 
between the sexes and the presence in both, at the upper and anterior border 
of the ej'e, of a small semi-circular wattle, which in life is a vivid scarlet. 
The plumage of the male is a glossy blue-black above with a conspicuous bar 
of white across the wing, while the under surface is white crossed with a 
broad black breast-band. The female is ashy above, white below with a 
reddish brown patch covering the throat and breast. The bill and legs are 
black. These handsome little Flycatchers are not uncommon in the Gambia 
in the rainy season. 
Parhyprova ^e,ie;/aleii«i>i. SENEGAL FLYCATCHER. 
Raiufe. West Africa ; Senegambia to Congo ; North-east and East 
Africa. (ILL.) 
In certain i)arts of the country in low bush, pairs or small parties of 
wluit I take to be this species are often met with, hunting the branches of 
the small trees and bushes for insects, and flitting from twig to twig more like 
Tits than true Flycatchers. They are comi)actly-built little biids with short 
tails, coniiiaratively long wings and broad black bills, which are flattened 
from aV)ove downwards, hooked at the tip and surrounded by stiff rictal 
bristles. As in the preceding species the sexes differ, the prevailing colours 
in the male being grey, black and white, in the female the same with the 
addition of a rufous-fawn forehead and chin, and a bright tawny breast. The 
egs are black, the irides lemon yellow. 
Tfrpsiphone cristata. PARADISE FLYCATCHER. 
Ea/iye. North-east and Equatorial Africa ; West Africa, Senegambia, 
(H.LJ. 
T. erythroptera. 
Ratige. Senegambia. ( H.L.) 
T. rufiventris. 
Range. Senegambia. {ILL). 
T. uigriceps. 
Range. Senegambia to Congo. ( ILL.) 
I know two species at least of Paradise Flycatcher in the (Jambia, and 
probably all the four enumerated above do occur here. They are all remark- 
ably handsome and conspicuous birds with crested heads, long, graceful tails, 
and shining black and copperj -chestnut plumage, which frequent the thick 
bush along the banks of the river and creeks, and which seem particularly 
partial, at any rate during the heat of the day, to places where the upper 
growth and its dense tangle of creepers cuts off the light and keeps the 
ground below always damp and only covered with such dank unwholesome- 
looking herbage, as can flourish in the constant gloom. They catch nearly 
