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Family LEPTOSOMATID^. 



48. LEPTOSOMUS DISCOLOR (Hermann). 



Cuciilus discolor, Hermann, Tabl. Affiu. Anim., 1777, p. 186. (Madagascar.) 

 L[eptosomus'] discolor, Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., IV, Pt. 1, 1862, p. 57. 



One specimeu. Female adult, 00 miles northwest of Malianoro, 

 April 11. 



Family MEROPID.E. 



49. MEROPS SUPERCILIOSUS, Linnseus. 



[Merops] superciliosus, Linn.eus, .Sy.st. Nat., 12tli ed., I, 1766, ]•. IX?,. (Mada- 

 gascar.) 



Two specimens. Male adult, oO miles northwest of Mahanoro, April 

 lo. "Bill black; irides dark red; length, 103 inches." Female adult, 

 Mahanoro, May 1. 



Family ALCEDI^^ID.E. 



50. CORYTHORNIS CRISTATA (Linnaeus). 



\^Alcedo'\ cristata, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, p. 178. [^Madagascar.] 

 Corythornis cristata, Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1870, p. 3'J8. 



Four specimens. Female adult, Mahanoro, April 20. Male adult. 

 Mananjara, east coast, July 3. Three si^ecimens. 



Family MICEOPODID.^.. 



51. TACHORNIS GRACILIS (Sharpe). 



Cypselus f/racilis, Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1871, p. 315. (Madagascar.) 

 Tachoniis gracilis, H.^rtert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, !>. 464. 



Three specimens. Male immature, Mabanoro, May 7. Male adult, 

 Masomeloka, May 9. Two specimens. 



Family PHILEP1TTID.E. 



52. PHILEPITTA CASTANEA (Miiller). 



Tiii'dus cctstaneus, MCller, Syst. Nat., SuppL, 1776, p. 143. (Madagascar.) 

 IPhilepitta] castanea, G. R. Gray, Haud-list Birds, I, 1869, p. 297. 



Two specimens. Male immature, Eiver IVlangoro, April 1'. Male 

 adult, Ambodiasy, valley of Faraony, June 17. 



The latter is in slightly worn dress, velvety black, with yellow edges 

 to the feathers of lower breast, abdomen, rump, and crown, with traces 

 on tertiaries, wing-coverts, and some other parts of the i)lnmage. The 

 fleshy lobes are well developed. In the specimen called imnuiture 

 male, the plumage is fresh, and the molt not quite completed. The 

 color is velvety black, but almost every feather on the bird is more or 

 less strongly edged with yellow, this so marked on the abdomen as to 

 almost entirely obscure the black. There are uo i)rominent fleshy 



