17. 3ERVAISIA. 67 



inner web ; thighs and under tail-coverts barred with white ; under 

 wing-coverts white, all except the lower outer greater coverts and 

 edge of wing ; axillaries blue- black, edged with white ; " feet grey ; 

 iris hvawxi^' {Grandldier). Total length 6--4 inches, culmen 0'7, 

 ■wing 2"9, tail 2-75, tarsus 1. 



Female. General colour above brown, more ashy on the hind 

 neck and mantle ; the lower back and I'ump more chocolate-brown, 

 deeper on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts ashy ; median, 

 greater, primary wing- coverts, and bastard wing dusky brown, 

 edged with brown like the back ; all the inner wing-coverts white, 

 forming a large wing-patch ; quills brown, the primaries externally 

 reddish brown, secondaries dark brown, with a whitish mark along 

 the outer web of some of the middle feathers, forming a narrow 

 line ; tail-feathers blackish brown, washed externally with choco- 

 late-brown ; crown of head brown ; lores buff ; ear- coverts brown, 

 with obscure whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks, sides of neck, and a line 

 above the ear-coverts bluish ashy ; throat bluish ashy, the chin 

 fulvescent ; fore neck, breast, sides of body, and flanks fulvous- 

 brown, whiter on the abdomen ; thighs whitish ; under tail-coverts 

 fulvescent ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, slightly 

 washed with fulvous ; quills brown below, the inner edges ashy 

 whitish. Total length inches, culmen 0"65, wing 2*75, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 0-95. 



Young. Mottled all over, the upper surface reddish brown with 

 dusky brown margins, the head and mantle darker, dusky brown 

 edged with dusky; upper tail-coverts chestnut: quills and tail- 

 feathers blackish, edged with rufous-brown ; below ye llowish buff, 

 whiter in the centre of the body, mottled with dusky margins to the 

 feathers. 



Bah. Madagascar. 



a. (S ad. sk. Madagascai". Purchased. 



b. (S imni. sk. N. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [P.]. 



c. $ ad.; f?. Juv.sk. N. Madagascar (Cro*'s/ey). R. B. Sharpe, Etq. 



2. Gervaisia pica. 



Copsvchus (Tardus) pica, Peh. Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, xxxi. p. 323 



(18.58, e.v Nattervr MSS.). 

 Copsyclnis pica, Hartl J.f. 0. 1660, p. 93; id. Orn. Madag. p. 38 



(1861); Verr. in Vinson, Voy. Madaq. 186-5, p. 2; Scld. 'P.Z.S. 



1866, p. 422; Grandid. Bev. et Mac/, de Zool. 1867, p. 3.58; Schl. 



8i- Poll Faun. Madaq., Ois. p. 9.5, pi. xxix. (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 2G,5, no. .38>8 (1869); S/iarpe, P. Z. .S'. 1870, p. ;;9.5 ; id. 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 28 (1871) ; Bartl. P. Z. S. 1.^7.5, p. 66 ; Hartl. Voy. 



Maday. p. 131 (1877); Sfejn. May./. Xafurtv. 1879 & 1880. 

 Copsyelius albospecularis, var. pica, Milne-JEdw. ^- Grandid. in 



Grandid. Hist. Nat. Maday., Ois. p. 36.5, pis. cxxxvi., cxxx\ii. 



(1881). 



Adrdt. General colour above glossy purplish black, including the 

 sides of the face and the entire neck and breast; the rest of the 



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