. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 142 MUSCICAPIDJi. Toimg. Entirely grey above, the taU with a slight metallic green gloss; underneath white, the cheeks bright orange-rufous, and the fore neck washed with the same colour. Bab. AN^est Africa; Gold Coast. o r 2 1 ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. L ¥ -I "^"^ (Type of species.) b r d 1 ad. sk. Wassaw, March 1872 {H. R. B. tSharpe, Esq. F. Blissett). c. Juv. sk. Ashantee. J- Gould, Esq. 3. Diaphorophyia concreta. PlatTstira concreta, Hartl. J. f. O. 18o5, p. 360. Platystira (MyiopMla) concreta, Hartl. Orn. p. 9o
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 142 MUSCICAPIDJi. Toimg. Entirely grey above, the taU with a slight metallic green gloss; underneath white, the cheeks bright orange-rufous, and the fore neck washed with the same colour. Bab. AN^est Africa; Gold Coast. o r 2 1 ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. L ¥ -I "^"^ (Type of species.) b r d 1 ad. sk. Wassaw, March 1872 {H. R. B. tSharpe, Esq. F. Blissett). c. Juv. sk. Ashantee. J- Gould, Esq. 3. Diaphorophyia concreta. PlatTstira concreta, Hartl. J. f. O. 18o5, p. 360. Platystira (MyiopMla) concreta, Hartl. Orn. p. 9o. Stiphromvias concreta, Heine, J. f. O. IBUO, p. 133. Myiophila concreta, Hartl. O. 18Gl,^p. Diaphorophyia concreta, Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 174. Adult (type of species). General colour above dark grey with a greenish gloss, the wing-coverts coloured like the back: ramp white; quills dusky brown, margined with ashy grey, lighter on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail greenish black ; lores con- spicuously white; in front of the eye a black spot, the feathers below the eye and the ear-coverts black, the latter with a greenish shade; cheeks and throat white, washed with orange ; remainder of under surface deep orange-chestnut, the under tail-coverts bu_ff; under wing-coverts and inner lining of the quills white, the quills ashy below. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-2, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. Lugd.) Hob. Ashantee. Obs. I have lately examined the type of this species, and hnd that it is apparently quite a distinct species, and is not the young of D. bUssetti, as I imagined it might prove to be when writing my paper on the genus in 1873. 6. BIAS. T, „ Type. Bias, Lesson, Traits, p. 385 (1831) B. Bill and foot of Bias musicus. Range. Confined to Africa. 1. Bias musicus. Platyi-hynchos musicus, rieill. K. Diet. d'Hisi. Nat. xxvii. p. 15; Acher. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 136; id. Arch. Mtis. \n. p. Please note that these images are e
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