572 TIMELIID.!:. 



white; upper part of the breast and centre of the abdomen pale 

 rufous, becomiug lighter on the latter ; Hanks olive-green ; bill 

 dark horn-brown, nearly black on the upper mandible and on the 

 basal half of the lower mandible ; the tips of the latter and the edge 

 of the former pale yellowish white ; legs dark horn-brown, claws 

 light brown. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2 65, tail 

 2-25, tarsus 0-9. 



The adult female does not differ from the male in plumage. 

 Young birds resemble the adult, but differ in having the crown 

 much paler and more dingy chestnut, the under surface of the body 

 olive-brown, inclining to yellowish along the breast, while the throat 

 is yellowish instead of white ; the upper mandible is dark horn- 

 brown, the lower one whitish ; the white eye-mark is wanting. 

 The bird when quite young is still more different, the upper surface 

 being entirely dingy olive without a trace of the rufous cap : while 

 uuderneath the colour is also dingy olive, with a broad yellow streak 

 down the centre of the throat, the breast having a few rufous feathers 

 intermixed. 



The specimens in the Museum vary in their measurements as 

 follows: — Total length 6- 6 '5 inches, culmen U-65-U-75, wing 2-4- 

 2-55, tail 2" 25-2-6, tarsus 0-9-1. The smaller birds are probably 

 the females, as the pair marked by Mr. Deans Cowan show a certain 

 disparity in the size of the sexes. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Mr. A. Crossley [C.]. 



c. .Juv. sk. Madagascar ( Cross/fy) . R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Betsileo. Mr. G. A. Shaw. 



e Ad. sk. Fianarantsoa, Betsileo. Rev. Deans Cowan 



[C-]- 

 fa c? 2 ad. sk. Ankafana forest, Rev. Deans Cowan 



March 21, 1881. [C.]. 



h. 2 hum. ; Ankafana forest, Rev. Deans Cowan 



{. 5 juv. sk. March 1881. [C.]. 



2. Oxylabes cinereiceps. 



Oxvlabes cinereiceps, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 197 ; Milne-Edwards 

 .y Grmidid. H. N. Madag., Ois. p. 3G0, pis. llSa, 123a (1883). 



Adult. Olive-green, with narrow pale shaft-lines ; wings and tail 

 olive, the edges to the primaries olive-yellow ; head and nape slaty 

 grev, lores duU white ; cheeks and sides of face creamy white ; ear- 

 coverts slaty grey ; throat and fore neck white ; rest of under surface 

 of bodv vellow, olive on the sides ; under tail-coverts olive-yellow ; 

 thio-hs' olive-brown ; under wing-coverts olive-brown washed with 

 fawn-colour ; edge of wing yellow ; quills light brown below, ful- 

 vescent along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-6 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-75, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-85. 



Younq. Differs from the adult in having the throat yellow shaded 

 with olive-green ; head sooty black, contrasting with the olive-green 

 back. 



Other specimens in the Museum measure as follows : — Total 



