2. DEOM^OCEECrS, 99 



rather smaller. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-35, tail 

 2-9, tarsus 0-95. 



Bah. Chatham Islands. 



a,b. (5 $ ad. sk. Chatham Islands. J. T. Travers, Esq. [C.]. 



2. DROMiEOCERCIIS. 



Type. 

 Dromaeocercus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 23 D. brunneus. 



Range. Confined to Madagascar. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Uniform rufous-brown above ; below uniform rufous, 



without stripes bnmneus, p. 99. 



b. Light brown above, the feathers mottled with dark 



centres to the feathers ; underneath ashy whitish, 



with dusky streaks on the breast seebohmt, p. 100. 



1. Dromaeocercus brunneus. 



Dromaeocercus brunneus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 22, pi. ii. fig. 2 ; 



Miltie-Udto. ^- Grandid. in Grandid. Hist. Nat. Maday., Ois. p. 333, 



pis. 128 A, 131, 131 B (1882). 

 Dromocercus hriumeus, Haiti. Vog. Madag. p. 408 (1877). 



Adidt. Above rufous-brown, the wing-coverts like the back; 

 quills blackish, externally dull rufous ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 the shafts glossy black ; lores rufcscent ; underneath paler rufous- 

 brown or chestnut, more fulvcscent in the centre of the abdomen ; 

 the throat also paler ; under wing-coverts like the breast. Total 

 length .5-9 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 2-5, tarsus 0"75. 



The sexes are apparently alike in colour when adult, and mea- 

 sure as follows : — 



d' ad. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-05, tail 2*7, 

 tarsus 0'85. 



5 ad. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-85, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 0"75. 



The hen bird, it will be seen, is a little smaller. Young birds are 

 more rufous both above and below, but particulaily on the under 

 surface ; the lores and feathers above the fore part of the eye are 

 white, as also is the throat ; the centre of the belly tawnj' buff. 



IJab. Madagascar, where it has hitherto been found at Fiana- 

 rantsoa and in the forests to the east of Antananarivo. 



a. Ad. sk. Near Antananarivo Algernon Peckover, Esq. [P.]. 



(Kingdoti). (Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Fianarantsoa. Eev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 

 c,d. Ad.sk. Betsileo. Eev. A. Shaw [C.J. 



«. c?) /"-'/• $ fid. ; Ankafana Forest, Rev. ^^. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



/^,?." Ad.sk. March 1881. 



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