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9. BERNIERIA. 

 „ . . . Type. 



Bemiena, Bp. C. R. xxxTiii. p. 11 (1854) B. madagascariensis. 



Range. Madagascar. 



1. Bernieria madagascariensis. 



Le Grand Figuier de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 48>'2, pi. xxiv. 



tig. 5 (1760J. 

 Le Vira-ombe de Madagascar, Sonn. Voy. Inde, ii. p. 198 (1782). 

 Madagascar Flycatcher, Lath. Oen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 333 (1783). 

 Muscicapa madagascariensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 940 (1788) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. a63 (1846). 

 Rhampliocoenus ^iridis, Less. Traite cPOrn. p, 377 (1831) ; Pucker. 



Arch. Mus. vii. p. 369 (1854-55). 

 Bernieria major, Bp. C. B. xxxv-iii. p. 10 (1854) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 4:^1. 

 Bernieria minor (= J ), Bp. C. B. xxxviii. p. 10 (1854). 

 Macrosphenus viridis, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 41. 

 Bernieria madagascariensis, Hartl. Faun. Madax). p. 35 (1861) ; 



E. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 343 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. :299 ; Grandid. 



Rev. et May. de Zool. 1867, p. 358, 1868, p. 50 ; Shmpe, P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 314 ; Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. 144 (1877) ; Sharjye, P. Z. S. 



1881, p. 196; Milne-Edwards Sj- Grandid. in Grandid. H. N. 



Maday., Ois. p. 350, pis. 12.3, 123 «, 1236, 124 (1881). 

 Bernieria minor, Hartl. Faun. Maday. p. 36 (1861) ; E. Newton, 



Ibis, 1863, p. 343 ; Schleyel, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421 ; Grandid. Rev. 



et May. de Zool. 1867, p. 358. 

 Tatare madagascariensis, Schl. S)- Poll. Faun. Maday., Ois. p. 89 



(1868). 

 Tatare minor, Schl. ^- Poll. op. cit. p. 90 (18(38). 

 Criniger minor, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 275, no. 4043 (1869). 

 Criniger madagascariensis, G7-ay, t. c. p. 275, no. 4044 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive-green, the head a 

 trifle more dusky, the feathers being dusky brown with olive-green 

 margins ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills light brown, the pri- 

 maries externallj' lighter olivo-greeu than the back, the secondaries 

 like the latter ; tail-feathers olive-green, -with faintly indicated 

 paler margins to the tips of the outer ones ; lores dusky, sur- 

 mounted by a narrow streak of yellow scarcely visible above the 

 eye ; eyelid yellowish ; ear-coverts yellowish olive, with indistinct 

 yellowish shaft-lines ; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and under 

 surface of body pale yellow ; the sides of body, flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts olive-green, the latter slightly mottled with olive- 

 yellowish margins ; axillaries yellowish olive ; the under wing- 

 covcrts light fulvous, edge of wing greenish yellow ; quills dusky 

 below, ashy fulvous along the iuucr web. Total length 0-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-1, wing 3-35, tail 2"9, tarsus 0*9. 



A'lult female. Similar to the male in colour, but very much 

 smaller ; " upper mandible dark brown, lower one horn-colour ; legs 

 and claws brown ; soles yellowish ; iris light brown *' (E. Newton), 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 2-8, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. 



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