5. IXOCINCLA. 45 



1. Ixocincla madagascariensis. 



Le Merle cendre de Madcagascar, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 291, pi. xxv. 



fig-. 2. 

 L'Ourovang ou Merle cendre de Madagascar, Dauhent. PL Enl. iv. 



pi. 557, tig. 2; Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 380. 

 Turdus madagascariensis, F. L. S. Midler, Syst. Nat., Anhang, p. 1.39 



{ex Montbeillaril). 

 Cinereous Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. part 1, p. 64. 

 Turdus urovang, Gm. Si/st. Naf. i. p. 836; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 219. 

 Turdus ourovang. Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 351. 

 Orova, Syanz. Mem. Soc. Mus. Strasb. iii. liv. 1, sig. MM. p. 26. 

 Hvpsipetes ourovang, J. Verr. Cat. Coll. RivoU, p. 6 ; Hartl. Faun. 



"Madag. p. 44; Roch ^- E. Neivt. Ibis, 1862, p. 273; K Neivt. Ibis, 



1863, p. 347, pi. xiii. tig. 5 [eg^] ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 163; id. Ibis, 



1864, p. 298 ; A. Neivt. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 385 ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. 

 de Zool. 1867, p. 359 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 385 ; Ifartl. VSg. 

 Madag. pp. 136, 409; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 677. 



Hvpsipetes urovang, Schl. ^- Poll. Faune Madag., Ois. p. 296. 



Hvpsipetes mada;;ascariensis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 272, no. 3993 ; 

 ^Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 21 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 313 ; A. Neicton, 

 in Rowleys Orn. Misc. ii. p. 49, pi. xlii. tig. 1 (head). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, the lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts as well as the 

 quiUs brown, externally washed with ashy grey ; tail-feathers 

 brown, slightly shaded with ashy ; crown of head and nape 

 glossy greenish black, the head slightly crested and the feathers 

 lanceolate in shape ; an incomplete eyebrow of ashy grey, com- 

 mencing at the base of the nostrils, biit obsolete above the eye ; 

 lores as well as the eyelid, a spot at base of lower mandible, and 

 another at base of chin black ; remainder of under surface of body 

 ashy grey, shading off slightly paler towards the centre of the 

 abdomen, which is dull white ; the flanks slightly washed with 

 brown ; thighs ashy, as also the under tail-coverts, which are 

 mottled with whitish edgings ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 light ashy brown, washed with grey ; quills brown below, ashy 

 brown along the edge of the inner web ; " beak orange ; legs dusky 

 yellow ; iris bright red " {E. Newton). Total length 8'8 inches, 

 culmcn 0-9, wing 4-1, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-75. 



The Madagascar Bulbul inhabits Madagascar and its islands 

 (Mayotte &c.), as well as those of the Comoro group (Grand Comoro, 

 Johanna Island »fcc.). 



a. (5 ad. sk. Bay of Antouzil, N.E. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Madagascar. 

 h. Ad. sk. X. Madagascar {A. Cross- E. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



It'!/)- 



c. Ad. sk. N. Madagascar (A. Cross- F. Godman & O. Salvin, 



ley). ' Esqrs. [P.]. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Moharabo, Madagascar. Mr. Gerrard [CI. 

 /. Ad. St. Mohilla, Comoro Islands. Dr. Kirk [C.l. 



g. Ad. sk. Mohilla, Comoro Islands. Dr. Kirk [CJ. 



