NOTES ON SOME BIRDS FROM THE 
a steel blue gloss; tail blackish, deeply furcate, the external rec- 
trices narrow, and 7 longer than the next; chin and lower parts 
white with a pale brownish tinge. Beak black, legs pale brown. 
Total length, 5.6; beak to front, 3; wings, 8.9; medial rec- 
trices, 1.6; external, 8; tarsus, 4. 
2. Platystira leucopygialis, Fraser, Zoologia Typica, pl. 84. The 
P. castanea of Fraser is the 2 of this bird. 
*3. Hyliota violacea. (Muscicapa violacea, Verreaux MS.). 
This bird is interesting as affording a second species of a genus of 
which one species only, the H. flavigaster, Swain., of Senegal, was 
hitherto known. It much resembles H. flavigaster, but differs in 
its broader beak and the less extent of white on the wing. Whole 
upper parts black with a steel blue gloss, of a rather more purple 
hue than in flavigaster. Three or four of the greater wing-covers 
next the body are white (in flavigaster the whole of the middle and 
the basal half of the greater coyers are white). ‘Lower parts pale 
cream colour; tibiz black ; beak and legs fuscous. 
Total length, 5; beak to front, 5; to gape, 7; broad, 91; wing, 3; 
medial rectrices, i.9; external, 2; tarsus, ¥. 
*4, Dicrurus coracinus, Verreaux MS. Whole plumage deep yel- 
vety blue black. Quills internally black. Total length, 6}; beak 
to front, 6; to gape, i; high, 32; wide, 3; wing, 4.9; medial rec- 
trices, 3.5; external, 4.3; targus, 7. 
5. Chaunonotus sabinei, Gray. (Hapalophus melanoleucus, Ver- 
reaux MS.), 
*6. Pycnonotus ashanteus, Bon. ? (Ios ashanteus, Bon., Verreaux 
MS.). ‘This bird differs from Pycnonotus barbatus (Desfont.) 
(Turdus arsinoe, Licht., Tos obscurus, Temm., Jos tnornatus, 
Fraser, Hematornis lugubris, Less., all of which names belong, in 
my opinion, to one species, though Prince Bonaparte makes two of 
them), only in having a very slight wash of yellow on the lower tail- 
covers, which in P. barbatus are white, Though labelled Fzos 
ashanteus, 1 doubt its being the true ashanteus of Bonaparte, Con- 
spectus Generum Avium, p- 266, as he says it only differs from his 
I. obscurus in being much less, whereas the present specimen agrees 
in size with obscwrus (P. barbatus, Desfont.). 
*7. Ixonotus guttatus, Verreaux MS. A curious form belonging to 
the subfamily Pycnonotine. At first sight resembles in general ap- 
pearance the genus Chrysococeyx. Beak longer than in Pycnonotus. 
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