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Show 1882.] ON BIRDS FROM THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 591 M U S C I C A P A U S S H E R I , sp. n. Adult. General colour above light brown, slightly more fulvescent brown on the lower back and rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts a little more ashy than the back ; greater coverts, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally edged with the same brown as the back; tail-feathers dusky brown, externally edged with brown like the back, and very narrowly fringed with whitish along the tip and near the end of the inner web ; nasal plumes and lores dull white, extending above the fore part of the eye so as to form a slight superciliary streak ; eyelid and feathers below the eye dull white ; the ear-coverts very light brown with dull whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat huffy white, with a tinge of fawn-colour on the fore neck ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the latter with light-brown centres; sides of breast, flanks and thighs light brown tinged with fawn-colour; under wing-coverts and axillaries ochreous buff; quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the inner web ; bill horn-brown, whitish at the base of the lower mandible. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 2*8, tail 2*2, tarsus 0*85. Hab. Abokobi, Gold Coast, Feb. 1880. This species has the appearance of an Erythrosterna; but the colour of its tail separates it from any of the species with which I am acquainted; otherwise it comes into the " Key to the Species " of Muscicapa in m y ' Catalogue' (vol. iv. p. 150) as follows :- a. With no white bar on the wing and with no white at base of tail. a'. Breast white, with brown streaks &c. a". Ashy brown &c grisola, p. 151. b". Dark brown &o griseisticta, p. 153. V. Breast uniform, without streaks. c". General colour above brown, ashy grey or slate-colour : size large, wing 2'8 to 3 4 inches. a'". Bill horn-brown, the base of the lower mandible yellowish white. a4. Under wing-coverts and axillaries brown; upper surface brown aquaiica,^. 154. 6*. Under wing-coverts aud axillaries ochreous buff; upper surface brown ussheri, sp. nov. 12. Notes on Birds collected in tbe Argentine Republic. By E. W . WHITE, F.Z.S. With Notes by P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. [Received June 12, 1882.] In travelling over the greater part of this vast Republic, I have found the difficulties and dangers great, and the distances to be surmounted, from one hunting-ground to another, immense. Not only so, but the naturalist here, unlike his brother in Europe, receives no encouragement, enjoys no facilities, and is obliged to PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1882, No. XL. 40 |