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Show 360 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY ON [June 18, browner. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*2, tail 1*6, tarsus 0*7. Adult female. Differs greatly from P. molitor, and much resembles P. capensis in the colouring of the upper parts. Forehead, crown, and back of the neck grey ; lores and sides of the head black, separated from the grey forehead and crown by a partially defined white stripe; mantle olive-shaded brown as in P. capensis; lower back partially mottled with white ; wings dark brown, the least series washed with the same colour as the mantle ; some of the median and greater coverts fawn-colour, forming a patch on the wing ; margins of quills pale, passing into fawn-colour on the inner secondaries ; tail black, the feathers edged with white and with white angular tips ; the white on the outer tail-feather never extends across the outer web, as it always does in P. molitor and P. capensis. Underparts and sides of the neck white, strongly washed with fawn-colour, mostly towards the base of the feathers of the throat and sides of the chest; under surface of the quills dusky, with white inner margins ; under wing-coverts white, with the outer half of the least and median series ashy shaded black. Bill black ; legs browner. Total length 3*8 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*4, tail 1*5, tarsus 0*7. Kilimanjaro, 3 2, 7000 ft., 6000 ft., August. I have no hesitation in referring these two specimens to the same species; their tails exactly agree and present a character by which they may with certainty be separated from both P. molitor and P. capensis, of both of which species they unite certain characteristics. 25. MUSCICAPA OERULESCENS. Muscicapa ceerulescens, Hartl., Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus.iv. p. 154 (1879). Teita, August 26. This specimen differs from six others with which I have compared it, in having the greater series of wing-coverts distinctly edged with white and broadly tipped with that colour, and the pale ed^es of the quills decidedly broader and whiter. Total length 4*95 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*9, tail 2*55, tarsus 0*6. I prefer to regard the slight characters above enumerated as rather a sign of immaturity than of specific value. 26. CRYPTOLOPHA UMBROVIRENS. Gryptolopha umbrovirens (Riipp.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus iv p. 401, pi. 12. fig. 2. Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., August 8. 27. TERPSIPHONE CRISTATA. Terpsiphone cristata (Gm.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 577 • id. Ibis, 1888, p. 299. Terpsiphone ferreti, Bohm, J. f. O. 1883, p. 170; Schal. t. c. p. 353 ; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 353 ; id. J. f. O. 1885.' p. 129; Rchw. J. f. O. 1887, p. 63. |