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Show 1884.] SPECIES OF FLYCATCHERS. 231 neck; breast pale rufescent brown, washed with ashy, the centre of the breast rather paler and resembling the abdomen, which is clear creamy buff, deeper and slightly inclining to tawny on the under tail-coverts; sides of body, flanks, and thighs decidedly more tawny rufous; axillaries and under wing-coverts clear tawny rufous ; quills dusky below, ashy rufous along the inner web ; " bill horn-colour; feet ashy; iris dusky" (Antinori). Total length 4*55 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2*4, tail 1*9, tarsus 0*55. The second species of which a specimen has been lent to me by Count Salvadori has been, as pointed out to m e by him, unaccountably left out of the ' Catalogue of Birds' both by myself and by Mr. See-bohm. It is the Drymophila abyssinica of Riippell, a species placed by Von Heuglin in the genus Sylvia, but I consider it, after examination, to be a true Lioptilus. I also take the present opportunity to correct auother omission in the ' Catalogue,' viz. that of Parisoma or AUgitha-lopsis galinieri, a large species which I also refer to Lioptilus. The latter genus has therefore at present four species, and the ' Key to the species' will require amendment as follows :- a. Under tail-coverts not chestnut; white or ashy or olive. a'. Head differing in colour from the back, which is warm brown ; sides of face, throat, and breast slaty grey. a". Crown of head black, contrasting with the back ; upper and under mandible yellowish white in skin nigricapillus, p. 231. b". Grown of head dark slaty grey ; under surface of body entirely grey with olive-brown flanks; back warm brown ; bill horn-brown in skin, paler on lower mandible abyssinicus, p. 231. b'. Head like the back, ashy olive ; throat whitish ; breast and flanks ashy brown, the abdomen and under tail-coverts white olivascens, p. 232. b. Under tail-coverts chestnut; head ashy brown like the back; forehead hoary whitish galinieri, p. 232. 1. LIOPTILUS NIGRICAPILLUS (V.); Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 262. 2. LIOPTILUS ABYSSINICUS. Drymophila abyssinica, Riipp. Neue Wirb. Taf. 40. fig. 2 (1835). Curruca abyssinica, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 57 (1845). Aedon abyssinicus (Riipp.); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 25 (1856). Sylvia habessinica, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 313 (1869). Adult female (Sciolalit, Shoa, April 1, 1878; Antinori). General colour above warm brown, rather more ruddy on the lower back and rump; lesser wing-coverts rather more tawny rufous than the back ; median and greater series dusky brown edged with tawny rufous; bastard-wing lighter and more ashy brown, washed externally with faint rufous; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged with tawny rufous, inclining to ashy grey towards the end of the primaries; the inner secondaries more ashy, edged with the same colour as' the back; tail-feathers ashy brown, edged with olive |