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abyssinica Rupp. The Indian genus Alcippe is thus excluded 
from the African avifauna, the species in question being 
a true Lioptilus, as Salvadori has already shown. 
The specimen before us has the grey crown of the head 
mixed with a few olive-brown feathers like those of the back, 
apparently a sign of immaturity. 
Total length about 6'0 inches, culmen 0 62, wing 2’95, 
tail 2'6, tarsus 1*0. 
[This bird is very common all through the wooded valleys 
of Southern Abyssinia.—L.] 
155. Chloropeta massaica. 
Chloropeta massaica Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1884, 
p. 54 (base of Kilimanjaro]. 
a. A. Konduro, Abyssinia, 25 March, 1899. (No. 417.) 
Iris brown; upper mandible black, lower light horn- 
colour ; legs black. 
The type of this species was obtained at the base of 
Kilimanjaro. We have compared the Abyssinian bird with 
a typical example of C. massaica in the Jackson Collection, 
and find that they agree perfectly. As the diagnosis of this 
very rare Flycatcher given by Fischer and Reichenow is 
extremely brief, we add the following description :—- 
Adult male. Very similar to C. natalensis , but at once dis¬ 
tinguished by having the crown of the head uniform brownish 
black. The third quill in both wings is unfortunately 
imperfect, the extremity being shot off’, but the fourth, fifth, 
and sixth quills are subequal and longest, while the seventh 
is very slightly shorter. Total length about 5‘5 inches, 
culmen 0*6, wing 2‘4, tail 23, tarsus 085. 
This species is new to the British Museum Collection. 
[Only once seen in thick bush.—L.] 
156. Terpsiphone cristata. 
Terpsiphone cristata (Gm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. 
p. 354 (1879) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvi. p. 234 
(1888); Sharpe, P. Z S. 1895, p. 490; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 
1898, p. 414 [N. Somaliland]. 
