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feathers narrowly edged and tipped with whity brown ; lores dusky ; 

 over the eye a scarcely perceptible streak of fulvous ; ear-coverts 

 light olive-brown ; cheeks and throat whitish, slightly washed with 

 fulvous-brown on the fore nock ; the throat and fore neck distinctly 

 streaked with dark brown, broader on the latter ; breast and sides 

 of body olive-brown ; thighs clearer brown ; under tail-coverts light 

 brown, broadly edged with yellowish white ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts very pale brown ; quills light brown below, ashy ful- 

 vous along the edge of the inner web ; " feet brownish ; iris clear 

 brown" {Gmndidier). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 

 2-55, tail 2-9, tarsus 1. 



Young. Much yellower than the adult, especially on the under 

 surface of the body, which is uniform and does not show the streaks 

 on the throat ; the colour of the upper surface also much more 

 olive. 



JIab. Eastern side of Madagascar. 



a, h. Ad. ; c. Juv. sk. Betsileo. Hev. A. Shaw [C.]. 



d \d ; e. Juv. sk. Fianavantsoa. Tiev. W. Deans Cowan [C.l. 



f (I h J ad. : i. d Ankafana forest, Rev. W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



juv.sk. March 1881. 



k, I. 2 ad. ; m, n, o. Ankafana forest, Rev. W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



5 juv. sk. March 1881. 



p, q. 'S 2 ad. sk. Madagascar. 



r rT ad sk. Madagascar. MM. Pollen and \ an Dam 



[C.]. 

 s. Ad. sk. Noce Vola ( Cross- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



ley). 



Subsp. a. Ellisia filicum. 

 Drvmoica ellisia, Schl. P. Z. S. 1800, p. 421 ; id. Sf Pollen, Fame 



'Madaq., Oh. p. 91, pi. 2%. fig. 2 (1808). 

 Ellisia lilicuni, Haiil. Voff. Madac/. p. 115 (1877). 

 Ellisia madagascariensis, var. filicum, Milne-Edwavds ^- Gmndid. rn 



Gmndid. Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 330, pi. 127 (1882). 



So similar to E. tyinca as scarcely to be distinguished from it. It 

 has the general colour a little more sombre : the throat, of a whitish 

 rufous colour, is bordered by a small yellowish collar and ordi- 

 narily it is not spotted, as in E. fypica, with small brown streaks ; 

 the breast and abdomen are darker and of an olive colour ; the ring 

 round the eye is not so clear, and there is no whitish superciliary 

 line; feet brownish ; iris brown. (Milne-Edw. and Grandidier.) 



Hah. North-west Madagascar. 



Subsp. /3. Ellisia lantzi. 



Ellisia lantzi, Grmidid. Pcv. ft Mat/, do Zool. 18G7, pp. 86, 250, 358 ; 



Ilaiil. Voq. Madaq. p. 116 (1877). 

 Drvmoica lantzii, (ir<n,, lland-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2840 (1809). 

 Ellisia mndagascaviensis, var. lantzii, Milne-Edwards Sf Grandid. ui 



Grandid. Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 330, pi. 128 (lb82). 



