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1. Crosslejria xanthophrys. 



Oxylabes xanthophrys, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 76. 



Crossleyia xanthophrys, Hartl. Vdff. Madag. p. 168 (1877) ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1881, p. 196; Milne-Edwards ^- Grandid. Hist. Nat. 



Madag., Ois. p. 361, pis. 126 & 126 a (1881). 



Above dull olivaceous brown, the head duller brown, aU the 

 feathers of the crown margined with dusky blackish ; wing-coverts 

 coloured like the back, the greater series clearer brown and more 

 resembling the secondaries ; quills blaeldsh, washed with clear and 

 somewhat rufous-brown, the primaries inclining to olive-brown 

 near the base ; upper tail-coverts and tail dull reddish brown, 

 waved with numerous cross bars of dusky brown ; lores and a 

 very broad eyebrow bright j-eUow, extending backwards to the 

 sides of the neck ; feathers in front of the eye blackish ; ear-coverts 

 dull brown, washed with olive like the head ; under surface of 

 body bright yellow, the sides of the neck and of the breast washed 

 with brown, the flanks and under tail-coverts browu, as also the 

 under wing-coverts ; the edge of the wing bright yeUow ; bill light 

 yellowish brown, dark brown at the base of the culmen ; feet pale 

 fleshy brown. Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 2-75, tail 

 2"75, tarsus 1*05. 



The adult female does not differ from the male in plumage ; and a 

 pair procured bj' the Eev. Deans Cowan measure as follows : — 



1 CTtVi Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 

 in. in. in. in. in. 



d . Ankafana 6-4 0-55 27 2-8 1-0 



2 . Ankafana 6-8 0-55 27 27 1-1 



Young, Differs from the adults in being more olive-brown, a little 

 darker on the head ; underneath olive-brown, the ear-coverts dark 

 like the head, the cheeks and an indistinct eyebrow pale yellow. 

 Hah. Central Madagascar. 



a. Ad. sk. 0. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b, c. Juv. ; d. Fianarantsoa, Betsileo. Rev. Deans Cowan [C.]. 

 Pull. sk. 



e. Juv. sk. Betsileo. Rev. G. A. Shaw [C.]. 



f. (S ; g, h. 2 Ankafana forest, Bet- Rev. Deans Cowan [C.]. 

 ad. sk. sileo, March 1881. 



i. $ juv. sk. Ankafana forest, Bet- Rev. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



sileo, March 1881. 



8. TATARE. 



Type. 



Tatare, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 317 (1831) T. longirostris. 



Hybristes, Reichenh. Syst. Av. pi. 57. fig. 7 (1850)* . . T. mariannse. 

 Eparnetes, Reichenb. torn. cit. pi. 57. fig. 12 (1850) * . . T. syrinx. 

 Tatarea, Reichenb. Handb. Scansorice, p. 207 (1853) . . T. longiroatris. 



Cf. Tristram, Ibis, 1883, pp. 38-46. 

 Ranr/e. Islands of the Pacific Ocean. 

 " * Cf. Bp. 0. E. xli. p. 1111 (1853). 



