lOS rAxiiB.T;. 



a,h. c? 2 ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar ( Van Dam). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. 9 ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar ( Van Dam). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. S ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar. Hr. Van Dam [C.]. 

 e,f. .luv. sk. Madagascar. Mr. Crossley [C.l. 

 g. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Mr. Crossley [C.J. 

 h. S ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



i. (S juv. sk. Analatsoi, Nov. 1880. Rev. W. Deans 



Cowan [C.]. 



k. cJ ad. sk. Ankafana forest. • Rev. W. Deaas 



Cowan [C.]. 



2. Artamia bicolor. 



Lanius madagascariensis cajndeus, Briss. Ornitli. ii. p. 197, pi. 16. 



fig. 3 ; id. 8vo edit., i. p. 212. 

 Loxia madagascarina, Linn. S. N. ed. 12, i. p. 306, nee Loxia bicolor, 



ibidem, p. 307. 

 Lanius bicolor, Linn. Mantiss. 1771. 



Pie-grieche bleue de Madagascar, Bnff. PL Enl. i. pi. 298. fig. 1. 

 Pie-grieche bleue, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 73. 

 Laniarius bicolor. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 299. 

 Dryoscopus bicolor, Bp. C. A. i. p. 361 ; id. Encycl. p. 730. 

 Cyanolanius bicolor, Bp. Collect. Del. p. 75 (l8o4); D' Oibif/yij/, Diet. 



Univ. d'llist. Xat. fig. ; Hartl. Faun. Muday. p. 49 ; id. ViJy. Madag. 



p. 157 ; Milne-Edw. Sf Grandid. Hist. Madag., Ois. pLs. 156, 157. 

 Artamus bicolor, Gray, Ifand-l. B. i. p. 290, no. 4289. 

 Artamia bicolor, Schleg. ^ Poll. Faun. Madag. p. 85, pi. 24 ; Grandid. 



Bev. et Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 386. 

 Cyanolestes bicolor, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 21 (1872). 



Adult male. Head, hind neck, scapulars, and the whole back and 

 upper tail-coverts of a beautiful cobalt-blue coloiir, deepening into 

 ultramarine on the head ; wing-coverts and quills black, externally 

 broadly margined with ultramarine, excepting the first two pri- 

 maries ; the central pair of tail-feathers blue, but with the shafts 

 and tips broadly black ; the other tail-feathers are black, only the 

 outer web blue, the outer pair almost entirely black ; lores, a small 

 ring round the eyes, and the chin black ; all the remainder of the 

 under surface of the bodj' pure white ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white ; edge of wing blue ; quills below entirely deep black ; 

 "bin blue-grey with a black tip; feet black; iris bluish white." 

 Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-5, tail 2-9, tarsus 0"7. 



Adult female. Less bright and of a duller, more greenish tint ; the 

 black of the wings and tail-feathers more brownish ; the tail-feathers 

 internally narrowly margined with white ; chin almost entirely 

 white ; body below creamy white. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a, 6. c? $ ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar, Nov. 1865. MM. Pollen and Van Dam 



[C.]. 

 c. (5 ad. sk. Noce Vola (Crossfey). F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



3. Artamia bernieri. 



Oriolia bernieri, Geoffroy Sf.-Hil. Mem. Acad. Sci. Aviil 2, 1838; id. 

 Bevue de Zool. 1838, p. 50 ; Giierin, Mag. de Zool. 1839, Ois. pi. 4 ; 



