152 TIMELIID-E. 



r. Ad. sk. N. Madagascar (^.CVo««%). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Betsileo. Rev. J. Shaw [C.J. 



<>. .Fuv. sk. Fianarantsoa. Rev.W. Deans Cowan [0.1. 



f. (S ad. sk. Ankafana forest, March Rev.W. Deans Cowan [C. J. 



1881. 



a-l. $ ad. sk. Ankafana forest, March Rev.W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



1881. 



2. Eroessa viridis. 



Adult. General colour above dull green ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back ; median, greater, and primury-coverts, bastard wing, and 

 quills dull ashy brown, edged with dull green like the back ; 

 iipper tail-coverts slightly yellower than the back ; tail-feathers 

 ashy brown, becoming dusky towards the ends, and edged with 

 green, the outer feathers narrowly edged with white round the 

 ends; crown of the head green like the back; lores and eyebrow 

 yellowish white ; ear-covcrts and cheeks yellowish white, the upper 

 edge of the ear-coverts dusk)-, sides of neck green like the back ; 

 throat, fore neck, chest, breast, and abdomen whitish, slightly 

 tinged with pale sulphur-yellow ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck 

 slightly mottled with ashy spots ; sides of body and flanks a little 

 browner ; thighs ashy brown ; uuder tail-coverts yellowish white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with j'ellow, the 

 edge of the Aving brighter yellow ; quills dusky brown below, inner 

 edges white. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1*75, tail 1'4, 

 tarsus 0'65. 



Hab. Province of Betsileo, Madagascar. 



(I. (^ a.d.; b, c, d, Ankafana forest, March Rev.W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 

 e. 2 ad. sk. 1881. 



3. Eroessa striatigula. 



Neomixis striatigula, Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1881, p, l!»-5, pi. xix. 

 Eroessa tenella, \a.v. major, Milne-Edw. ^- Orandid. in Grandid. Hist. 

 N(d. Maddff., Oil. p. 32.3, pis. 113 a & b (1882). 



Adult. General colour above olive-green, rather more yellowish 

 olive on the head, lower back, and rump ; the hind neck somewhat 

 ashy ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; the greater 

 coverts and quills light brown, edged with yellowish olive ; tail- 

 feathers light brown, margined narrowly with yellowish olive ; lores 

 and a very faintly indicated eyebrow light yellow, in front of the 

 eye a dusky spot ; cheeks and ear-coverts yellow, mottled with 

 dusky brown tips to the feathers ; under surface of body yellow, 

 passing into white on the centre of the abdomen ; the lower flanks 

 light ashy brown ; the throat and fore neck streaked with dark 

 brown down the centres of the feathers ; the breast mottled with 

 large centres of dusky brown ; under tail-coverts dusky brown. 



