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Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
coverts are not so large, none of the coverts being entirely 
white; the throat, breast, and abdomen are pale yellowish- 
brown (these parts are nearly white in the male). The 
young bird is dull black, without any white on the wing- 
coverts, and beneath nearly white. 
Nos. 1762 and 1763 were shot by myself in the same tree, 
where they were busily flitting about among the twigs 
looking for insects, more in the manner of a Warbler than 
of a Flycatcher. 
Platystira cyanea. [Njibesole.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 626 ; 1907, p. 449. 
I have now heard this bird making noises very similar to 
those of Diaphorophyia castanea as already described ( ( Ibis/ 
1905, p. 94); that is, a flipping noise, made with its wings 
during short flights, and a snapping noise made with its bill 
while at rest on a perch. Two or three rapid snaps with the 
bill were made at a time, the mouth being opened wide in 
making them. This was done by a male, and was evidently 
done to attract the attention of the female. 
Diaphorophyia tonsa. 
Bates, Bull. B. O. C. xxvii. p. 86. 
No. 4039. ? > breeding (type of the species). Bitye, Nov. 
1909. 
No. 3275. $ imm. Assobam, Dec. 1908. 
?No. 2970. <? ad. Bitye, March 1908. 
Diaphorophyia chalybea. (Plate IX. fig. 22, egg.) 
Reich. Y. A. ii. p. 492. 
D. chlorophrys Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 469 ; 1907, p. 449. 
Females differ from males only in having less metallic 
lustre. 
No. 2954, $, w T as shot with bow and arrow, and brought 
to me with its nest and two nestlings, Nos. 2955 and a . 
The nest, like that of Tchitrea , is a little circular cup of 
fibres bound about with cobwebs, but is not so compact and 
neat as the Abelebele’s nest. It measures 40 or 45 mm. in 
diameter at the inside of the rim. 
