690 SOME XEW BIRDS FROM MADAGASCAR— RICHMOXI). volxix. 



57. TYLAS EDUARDI, Hartlaub. 

 Tijlax ednardi, Hartlaub, Proc Zool. 8oc. Lond., 1862, p. 152. (Madagascar.) 



Two specimens. Male adult, Andranjiolsaka, Imerina, March 20. 

 Male immature, same locality, March 27. "Bill black; irides pale 

 yellow browu.'' 



The adult has a white chest and under tail-coverts, and the rest of 

 the under parts are so pale, with a normally colored leather bere and 

 there, that a little bleaching would transform it into a typical T. alfredi, 

 The mantle is (juite bluish slate. The other specimen is a true T. eduardi. 

 and was obtained at the same jdace a day later. 



58. BERNIERIA MADAGASCARIENSIS (Gmelin). 



[_Mu9cicapa'\ madafiascariensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. 2, 1788, p. 940. (Mada- 

 gascar.) 

 Bleriiieria'] madagascariensis, Kartlavu, Fauna Madag., 1861, p. 53. 



One specimen. Female adult, 80 miles northwest of Mahanoro, April 5. 



59. BERNIERIA ZOSTEROPS, Sharpe. 



Bcrnieria zosteropa. SnARPE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 76. (Central Mada- 

 g.ascar. ) 



Two specimens. Male adult, 60 miles northwest of Mahanoro, April G. 

 Family MUSCIOAPID.E. 



60. PRATINCOLA SIBILLA (Linnaeus). 



[J/o<ac(Z/rt] sihiUa, LiXN.EUS, Syst. Nat., 12th cd., I, 1766, p. 337. (Madagascar.) 

 irratincoIa~] sybiUa, Bonaparte, Consp. Avium., 1,1850, p. 304. 



Three specimens. Male adult, Andrangolsaka, Imerina, ^larch 25, 

 27 ; 4,500 feet. Two specimens. Female adult, same locality, March 25. 



61. NEWTONIA BRUNNEICAUDA (A. Newton). 



Erythrosterna (?) hrunneicauda, A. Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1863, \^. 180. 



(Near Fenerive, Madagascar.) 

 yeu-tonia hninndcauda, SCHLEGEL, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, j). 422. 



Five specimens. Male adult. Andrangolsaka, Imerina, IVlarch 20. 

 IMale adult, SO miles northwest of Mahanoro, April 5. Female adnlt, 

 00 miles northwest of Mahanoro, April 0. Female adult, Kiver Sakales, 

 east coast, May 10. ]\Iale adult, Ambodiasy, valley of Faraony, east 

 coast, June 13. " Jiill black; feet deshy brown; irides pale yellow 

 white.'' 



These specimens are all iV. hrunneicamln, but I find a specimen 

 of Iieichenow's recently described N. amphlchroa in the United States 

 National Museum, collected by Reverend W. Dean Cowan, at Ankafana, 

 March 8, 1881. 



Doctor J. Biittikofer appears to have redescribed this latter species 

 under the name Xeivtonia olivacea.^ 



I Notes Leyden Mus., XVIII p. 199., 



