66 



m. $ irntn.; n. Pull. sk. 

 0. (S ad. sk. 

 p. cJ iuiin. sk. 



TIMELnD.E. 



Labuan. 

 Labuan. 



Baniermassing. 

 Bali. 



Governor Ussbev [CI. 

 Governor Ussher [C.]. 

 J. Motley, Esq. [C.]. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.I. 



17. GERVAISIA. 



Type 



Gorvaisia, Bp. Comptes Reiulus, xxxviii. p. 6 (1854). . G. albispeoularia 



Foot of Gervaisia. 

 Banje. Coiifiaed to Madagascar. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. Throat black like upper surface. 



a'. Tail entirely black albospecularis S , P- 66. 



h'. Tail-feathers white at end ; outer feather 



white inca S, P- 67. 



h. Throat grey ; upper surface brown. 



c'. Tail blackish alhuspecularis $ , p. 67. 



d' . Tail tipped with white; outer feather 



white pica 5 , p. QS. 



] . Gervaisia albospecularis. 



Turdus albospecularis, Eyd. et Gerv. Mag. de Zool. 18.35, pis. 64, 65 ; 



iid. Voy. Favorite, v. Zool. part ii. p. 35, pis. xii., xiii. (1839). 

 Le Merle noir, S(/anzin, Mem. Sac. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Strasb. 1840, 



p. 26. 

 Saxicola albospecularis, Verr. Cat. Rivoli Coll. p. 14 (1846). 

 Thamnobia albospecularis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 185 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 298 (1850). 

 Gervaisia albospecularis, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 6 (1854); Hartl. Orn. 



Madag. p. 39 (1861) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 186.3, p. 304; E. Nexvton, 



Ibis, 1863, p. 345, pi. 13. tig. 4 ; Verr. in Vinson, Voy. Madag. 



Ann B. p. 2 (1865) ; Schlegel, P. Z.S. 1866, p. 422; S'harpe, Cat. 



Afr. B. p. 28 (1871) ; Bartlett, P.Z. S. 1875, p. 66. 

 Gopsychus pica juv., Sliarpe, P. Z. >S. 1872, p. 866 (err.). 

 Copsychus albospecularis, Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, 



p. 358 ; Schl. ^- Poll. Faime Madag., Ois. p. 96 ; Gray, JIand-l. B. 



i. p. 266, no. 3897 (1869) ; Hartl. Vog. Madag. p. 134 (1877). 

 Copsychus albospecularis typicus, Milne-Edwards ^ Grandid. in 

 Grandid. Hist. Nat. Madag., Oiseaux, p. 363, pis. cxxxv., cxxxvi. 



(1881). 



Adult male. Entirely blue-black above and below, quills a little 

 browner ; a large white wing-patch, formed of the inner coverts of 

 all three scries, the adjoining coverts black externally, white on the 



