6. EROESSA. 151 



a'. Larger: bill black; ear-coverts olive-browu, washed 

 with greenish yellow ; spots on throat aud chest 

 large and dusky brown ; under tail-coverts dusky, 



with yellowish-white tips striatiyula, 



b'. Smaller; bill horn-brown, the mandible reddish; [p. 152. 



ear-coverts bluish grey ; spots on throat very in- 

 distinct and ashy grey in colour ; under tail-coverts 



white tenella, p. lol. 



b. Tail-feathers ashy, edged with olive-green ; the 

 outer feathers tipped and fringeil with white along 

 the edge of the inner web ; entirely olive-green 

 above viri<lis, p. 152. 



1. Eroessa tenella. 



Le petit Simon de Bourbon ou Figuier de Madagascar, Sffanzin, 



Mem. Mus. H. N. IStrasb. 1840, p. 28. 

 Eroessa tenella, Hudl. 1\ Z. S. 1866, p. 218 ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 422 ; Grandid. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1867, p. 357 ; Schl. ■$■ Foil. 



Fauna Madaq., Ois. p. 92, pl.'xviii. tig. 2 (1868) ; Skarpe, P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 390; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 34 (1871) ; Barll. P. Z. S. 1875, 



p. 65 ; Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. Ill (1877) ; Milne-Edw. !^- Grandid. 



Hist. Nat. Maday., Ois. p. 321, pis. 113, 113 b, 114 (1882). 

 Damia pusilla, Pol/en, MSS. ; Sc/degel, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 422. 

 Drymoica tenella, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2843 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above olive-j-ellow, mixed with grey on 

 the mantle ; lesser aud median wing-coverts like the back ; greater 

 coverts, bastard wing, primarj'-coverts, aud quills light brown, 

 edged with olivc-yellow, a little brighter on the primaries ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts a little brighter than the back ; tail-feathers 

 olive, with olive-yellow margins, the outer feathers fringed at the 

 tips and along the edge of the inner web with yellow ; crown of 

 head olive-yellow, a little brighter than the back ; uapc ashy grey, 

 as also sides of neck, forming a tolerably distinct collar ; lores bright 

 yellow, extending over the eye so as to form a tolerably distinct eye- 

 brow ; feathers round the eye yellow, in front of the latter a slightly 

 indicatt'd spot of dusky ; ear-coverts light ashy grey, the fore part 

 washed with yellow ; the feathers below the eye, aud the cheeks, throat, 

 fore neck, chest, and breast bright lemon-yellow, the throat a little 

 paler ; cheeks sliglitly obscured with ashy tips to the feathers ; on the 

 fore neck some obscure triangular spots of ashy grey ; abdomen 

 white ; sides of body slightly washed with olive-greenish ; thighs 

 olivc-yellow ; under tail-coverts ashy white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, faintly washed with yellow ; edge of the wing 

 liright yellow ; quills dusky below, inner edges white ; " upper 

 mandilde clear brown, lower yellowish; tarsus brownish; claws 

 yellow ; iris bi'own" (Grrtndidier). Total length 4 inches, culmcn 

 0-4o, wing 1"75, tail 1 •4-"), tarsus 0"6. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



o, h. Ad. sk. Madagascar. M. Verreaux. 



