9. LALAGE. 103 



median and greater coverts dark brown, edged with the same rusty 

 brown as the back ; bastard phimes and primar3--coverts blackish 

 brown ; quills dark brown, the primaries margined with whity 

 brown, the secondaries with rusty brown, the innermost entirely of 

 the latter colour and resembling the back ; tail-feathers black, the 

 two centre ones browner, all tipped with white, increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost feathers, which are rather broadly tipped ; 

 feathers in front of the eye hoary grey ; sides of face greyish white, 

 the feathers edged with dull ashy, producing a mottled appearance ; 

 throat and under surface ashy white, the chest and flanks washed 

 with fulvous, the whole under surface narrowly barred with dull 

 blackish cross lines ; under tail-coverts white ; mider wing-coverts 

 white, with narrow cross bars like the breast ; quills dull brown 

 below, white towards the base of the inner web ; " bill and feet 

 bluish; iris brown " (Po/fcji ^- Van Dam). Total length 7"7 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 3-9, tail 3'3, tarsus 1. 

 Hah. Island of Reunion. 



a. 2 ad., b. $ juv. sk. Reunion. E. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. c? 2 ad. sk. Reunion, Jan. 4, MM. Pollen and Van Dam 



1865. [C.]. 



«>/• d" $ ad. sk. Reunion. M. Van Dam [P.], 



14. Lalage insperata. 



Volvocivora insperata, Finsiii, 1\ Z. S. 187o, p. G4.3 ; id. Journ. Miis. 

 Godeffr. Heft xii. p. 27 ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 779. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous-brown, the rump and 

 upper tail- coverts dull chestnut, contrasting with the back ; head 

 rather duller than the mantle ; scapular and lesser wing-coverts a 

 little more nifous than the back, the median and greater series ashy, 

 externally rufous, and edged with a narrow margin of darker rufous ; 

 quills blackish brown, externally margined with nifous, paler at the 

 tips ; two centre tail-feathers rusty bi'own, the remainder dark brown 

 with pale rufous tijjs, broader on the outer ones, which are also ru- 

 fescent along the outer web ; feathers in front of the eye dull ashy ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts chestnut with fulvous shaft-lines : sides 

 of neck and entire under surface of body deep chestnut-red, inclu- 

 ding the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; inner edges of quills below 

 pale chestnut. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4-15, 

 tail 3-4, tarsus 1'05. 



Hab. Island of Ponape. 



fl. Ad. sk. Ponap^ (Br. Kubary). Museum Godeffroy. 



15. Lalage fimbriata. 



Ceblepyris fimbriata, Temm. PL Col. iii. pis. 249, 250; Schl. Handl. 



Dierk. i. p. 289 (pt.). 

 Volvocivora fimbriata, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 61 ; Bp. Consp i 



p. 356 (pt.) : Hartl. J. f. 0. 1865, p. 161 {e.rcl. .ryn^). 

 Canipephaga fimbriata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 354 ; id. Hand-1. B i. 



p. 338, no. 5104. 



