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Show 490 DR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS [May 21, 97. MUSCICAPA GRISOLA. Muscicapa grisola, L.; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 439 (1871); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 151 (1879). a. d ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 28, 1894. Iris dark brown. The Common Flycatcher visits Egypt in August and September, and is said by Heuglin to extend southwards to Nubia, Senar, and Abyssinia. In October he found it not rare on tbe Adel and Somali coasts, and at Aden in December. Neither Antinori nor Ragazzi appear to have met with the species in Shoa, nor did Mr. Jackson meet with it on his journey to Uganda ; but in German East Africa the species has been detected in all kinds of localities from the coast to the Victoria Nyanza, so that there is not the slightest doubt that the species migrates throughout the whole country between the lakes and the coast-region. 98. PARISOMA BOEHMI. Parisoma boehmi, Reichen. J. f. O. 1882, p. 200; id. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 215 (1894). A. d ad. Hargeisa, July 16, 1894. Iris straw-colour. This interesting species, which Dr. Reichenow considers to be a Tit, but which I think to be a Flycatcher, has not yet been found in British East Africa or in Shoa, but is recorded by Dr. Reichenow from Ugogo, Wembaere, Mpwapwa, Pare Mountains, and Masailand. Its presence in Somali-land was therefore unexpected, but it doubtless occurs in the intervening region. 99. TERPSIPHONE CRISTATA. Terpsiphone melanogastra (Swains.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 441 (1871). Terpsiphone cristata, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 354 (1879) Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 124 (1884); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 400; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) p. 234 (1888); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 504. «. d ad.; b. d imm. Shebeli, Aug. 26, 1894. Iris brown ; eyelids bright blue ; legs and bill bluish grey. c. d juv. Sheik Husein, Sept. 19,1894. Iris brown ; legs grey. el. d imm. Darro Mountains, Nov. 18, 1894. Iris brown ; bill, eyelids, and legs bright grey. e. d ad. ?, Jan. 10, 1895. Iris brown ; bill and legs bluish grey. Heuglin says that the home of this Paradise Flycatcher extends from the Abyssinian coast-land in lat. 16°-17° south to the upper districts of the White Nile and its tributaries. In the wooded portions of Abyssinia it ascends to 8000 feet, and is plentiful in that country, as also in Senar and in Southern Kordofan, on the Sobat, Djur, and Gazelle Rivers, as well as on the Bahr-el-Djebel. Antinori considered the species to be resident, but Heuglin believes that it may be partly migratory, moving at |