702 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
Muscicapa striata (Pallas). Spotted Flycatcher 
Motacilla striata Pallas, Vroeg’s Cat. Verzam. Vogelen, Adumbr., p. 3, 1764: Holland. 
Small, forehead and crown brown, the feathers with blackish centers and pale edges, giving a 
speckled effect; rest of upper parts grayish brown, chin and center of throat, and center of abdomen 
and the under tail-coverts white; sides of breast and abdomen streaked with brown. Breeds in 
Europe, winters in Africa. 
Under the name M. grisola, Biittikofer has recorded two specimens of this 
European flycatcher, which though it breeds in the Atlas Mountains northward, 
is found elsewhere in Africa as a migrant or winter resident. It probably avoids 
the forested part of western Africa as a wintering place, yet a few are present at 
least along the coast. Biittikofer’s records are of one taken at Fisherman Lake, 
January 3, and another at Old Field in March; Lowe secured a male at Nana 
Kru on the south coast, January 20, 1911, and regarded it as rare. 
Platystira cyanea cyanea (P. L. 8. Miller) 
Muscicapa cyanea P. lL. S. Miiller, Linn. Natur. Syst., Suppl. u. Register Bd, vol. 1, p. 170, 1776: 
Senegal. 
Length 5.5 inches; head, nape, back, wing-coverts and tail, shining blue-black; soft feathers 
of the rump gray with white spots; below white with a breast-band of shining blue-black; wings 
blackish, edged with white; tips of tail-feathers with white edges; a red wattle over the eye. 
Senegambia to Loango. 
We did not meet with this flycatcher, but Bittikofer found it not uncommon 
in undergrowth along swamps and rivers as at Robertport, Old Field, and Paynes- 
ville; and Lowe in January secured specimens at Nana Kru and Settra Kru. 
Buttikofer saw it picking small caterpillars from twigs. According to Thompson 
(1925), it is fairly common in Sierra Leone, nesting in November and December, 
so it no doubt does the same in Liberia. 
Diaphorophyia castanea (Fraser). Chestnut Wattled Flycatcher 
Platysteira castanea Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1842, p. 141: Fernando Po. 
Small, 4 inches long; male with head, upper back, wing-coverts, a broad breast-band, and tail, 
black; rump, throat, sides of head and neck, belly, and under tail-coverts white. Female with 
gray-brown head, the back, wing-coverts and breast-band chestnut; eye wattles purplish blue. 
Lower Guinea to Cameroons. 
Like others of this genus, this is a thicket-haunting species. Dr. Linder shot 
one among thick bushy growth by the Du, which was the only one we met with, 
but Buttikofer in the course of his collecting secured several: a pair among 
underbrush near Hill Town, a male at Schieffelinsville, and others from Farm- 
ington River, Paynesville, Robertport, and the Marfa River. 
Diaphorophyia blissetti Sharpe 
Diaphorophyia blissetti Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 10, p. 451, 1872: Gold Coast, 
Wassaw province. 
Length 4 inches; throat and upper side steely blackish, rump grayish with white spotting; 
a reddish-brown band on side of head and neck; below white; eye lappet blue. Liberia to Togo. 
