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the feathers narrowly edged on outer webs with glossy blue black; 

 outer lesser and middle wiug-coverts glossy blue black; greater wing- 

 coverts and primary coverts black, with a greenish gloss; inner wiug- 

 coverts white, forming a promiueut white patcli; iunermost secondary 

 conspicuously edged with white on outer web; under wiug-coverts and 

 axillaries mottled black and white; edge of wiug glossy blue black; 

 legs and feet dark plumbeous (iu dried skin), claws lighter. Wiug, 

 2.82 inches; tail, 2.05; tarsus, 1.05; culmen, 0,00. The female seems 

 to differ from the description of (J. alboiipernlari.s, mainly in having the 

 chin and breast gray, like the throat. The gray of chin and throat 

 is somewhat lighter than that of the breast; the abdomen is white. 

 Doctor Abbott notes on the label of one of the females, "bill black; feet 

 leaden blue."' 



This species is doubtless closely related to C. albo-specularis., but the 

 pure white abdomen and under tail-coverts of the male will at once 

 distinguish it from that species. Of the three males sent, tlie type only 

 is fully adult. One of the others is nearly so; its wings are black with- 

 out any brownish edging, but the sides of body are sooty gray, with 

 a blackish wash pervading the feathers; the under tail-coverts and a 

 few feathers of the sides are fulvous. The rest of the plumage is 

 exactly that of the adult. 



The remaining male is still younger; the sides are lighter, brownish 

 gray; the Aving feathers are dark brown, with broad russet edgings on 

 the outer webs of some of the primaries, and narrower, brownish edg- 

 ings on the rest of the wing feathers; the glossy feathers of the rump 

 are tipped with rusty; the tail feathers are brownish black. In other 

 respects this example is like the adult. 



In the only two examples of G. albo-speciUaris accessible to me, both 

 males, the plumage is apparently not quite adult; the feathers on the 

 abdomen, wings, tail, and under tail-coverts are more or less tipped or 

 edged with rusty brown, evidently a sign of immaturity, but tliere is 

 no white on the abdomen, which, in the species just described, is as 

 prominent and extensive in the immature as in the adult. 



The localities represented by the five specimens sent by Doctor 

 Abbott are: Mouth of river Fanantara and Mahela; Mananjara: and 

 Ambodiasy, valley of the Faraony, all on the east coast. 



To those who recognize Gerraisia as a genus, the species nill of 

 course stand as Gervaisia inexspt'ciata. 



56. HYPSIPETES MADAGASCARIENSIS (Miiller). 



Turdus madagascariensis, IVIfLLER, Syst. Nat., >Suppl., 177(3, ^i. 139. (Madagascar.) 

 Hjipsipetes madagascariensis, Schlegel, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 422. 



Three specimens. Male adult, Andrangolsaka, Imerina, March 20. 

 " Length, 9^ inches." Female adult, same locality and date. " Length, 

 Oi Indies." Female adult, 40 miles northwest of iMahanoro, April 17. 

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