J.2. OXYLABES, 571 



Young. More fluffy in plumage than the adult, and rather greener 

 in tint, the bill lighter horn-brown, yellower on the edge of the 

 upper mandible ; the throat and chest are also shaded with olive- 

 green. 



Hah. Central Madagascar, 



a. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Central Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 



, r ,n J 1 ^ (Type of species.) 



W J. . ■ . , Central Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [CI. 



c, rf. [ 5 ] ad sk. Noce Vola, Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley rCl 



^- f 2 J af • f- Betsileo. Rev. W. Shaw [C.]. 



/. L V J ad. sk Fianarantsoa, Betsileo. Rev. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



g. 6 ; h, I, k. Ankafana forest, Feb. and Rev. Deans Cowan FCl 



? ad. sk. March 1881. '" "' 



I, m. 2 juv.; Ankafana forest, Feb. and Kev. Deans Cowan fC 1 



n. cS JUV. sk. March 1881. -^ 



22. OXYLABES. 



Oxylabes, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 386 O. madagasclriensis. 



lianx/e. Madagascar. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Throat white. 



a'. Head rufous ; breast pale rufous madaqascariensis ad., p. 571. 



6 Head grey ; breast yellow cinereiceps ad., p. 572. 



o. Throat yellow. 



c' . Breast dusky olive or pale reddish; 

 head like the back or mixed with 



^^"ous ni(ida</ascariensis\uY.,-p. 572. 



a. Breast yellow; head ashy black con- 



trasting with the olive-green back . . cinereiceps juv., p. 572. 



1. Oxylabes madagascariensis. 



Rossignol de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 401, p] 2'> fio- 1 ("1700) 



Le Foudi-jala, Buff. Hist. Nat., Ois. v. p. 116. c- v /• 



Motacilla madagascariensis, Gtn. Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, p. 952 (1788). 



Sylvia madagascariensis. Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. p. 96. 



Elhsia V madagascariensis, Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 37 (1862). 



Dryiuoica ? madagascariensis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2848 

 (1869). 



0.\ylabes madagascariensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 386 • id Cat 

 Afr. B. p. 20 ; id. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 866, pi. Ixxiii. ; Hartl. Vog 

 Maday. p. 165 (1877); Hharpe, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 197; Milne-Ed- 

 wards S,- Grandid. H. N. Maday., Ois. p. 357, pis. 126, 126 a, 126 ft 

 (1883). 



Adult. Head rich siemia, obscurely fringed with brown on the 

 forehead ; lores and a spot behind the eye pure white ; ear-coverts 

 duller sienna ; upper surface of the body olive-green, inclining to 

 rufous on the sides of the neck ; quills pale greyish brown, mar^-ined 

 exteriorly with olive-green, especially the secondaries, the inner- 

 most of which arc entirely of a dull olive-green colour ; tail 

 dull olive-green, rather lighter on the under surface ; throat pure 



