106 lanitd.t:. 



back by a grey collar ; chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, abdomen, under 

 tail- and wing-coverts pure white ; fore neck and breast and flanks 

 silvery grey ; under surface of quills light umber, internally edged 

 with white. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



a. S ad. sk. Madagascar. E. B. Sharps, Esq. 



b. 5 ad. sk. E. Madagascar {Pollen). 11. B. Shaipe, Esq. 



c. c? juv. sk. Forest of Ancaya, Piu-cbased. 



Madagascar. 



5. ARTAMIA. 



Type. 



Artamia, Lafresn. Diet. Univ. (TILsf. Xaf. ii. (1832). A. leucocephala. 



Leptopteryx, Wai/ler, S;/st. Av. (1827) A. leucocephala. 



Oriolia, Geoffr. St.-Hil. Mein. Acad, des Sciences, April 



2, 1638 A. bernieri. 



Cyanolanius, Bp. Coll. Delattre, p. 75 (1854) A. bicolor. 



Cyanolestes, nom. emend. 2}>'o Cyanolanius, Sundev. 



'Av. Meth. Tent. p. 21 (1872) A. bicolor. 



Head of Artamia bicolor. 



Bill laterally compressed ; culmen slightly curved, toothed, but 

 slightly notched ; nostrils round, completely ossified, quite exposed, 

 without any nasal or rictal bristles. First primary longer than half 

 the second ; tip of wing formed by fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries ; 

 wings rather long ; secondaries five sixths of the whole wing. Tail 

 square, shorter than wing, each feather slightly pointed. Tarsus 

 anteriorly covered with transverse scales. Uuderparts of body pure 

 white, upper parts glossy green-black or cobalt-blue. 



Range. Madagascar. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast without transverse bars. 



a'. Head white ; back greenish black. . . . hucocepluda, p. 107. 



V . Head blue like the back bicolor, p. 108. 



c'. Head greenish black like the back and 



rest of under surface bernieri, p. 108. 



h. Breast with transvei-se bars. 



d'. Underneath rufous, the transverse bars 



blackish and distinct bernieri ]\xy., p. 109. 



e'. Underneath fulvescent with ashy cross 



markings; thi-oat and chest ashy .. leiKOcephala]\x\.,^. 107. 



