CATALOGUE 



BIRDS. 



Order PICARI/E. 



(Cat. B. vol. xvi. p. 1.) 



Suborder CORACI/E {continued). 



{Of. vol. xvi. p. 434.) 



Family LEPTOSOMATID^E. 



Soxes difFeront in colour, the dorsal plumage of the male metallic. 



Palate desmognathous. 



Feet semi-zygodactyle ; the oi;ter toe cleft to the base and partly 

 reversible ; the iuuer toe united to the middle one along the basal 

 joint. 



A powder-down patch on each side of the rump. 



Nostrils exposed, linear, situated ia the middle of the upper 

 mandible, with a horny plate across the nasal opening instead of 

 a membrane ; the loral plumes recurved and directed forward 

 over the base of the culmcn. Bill decurved ; tomium straight, 

 hooked slightly at the end ; genys straight for the basal half, 

 gently ascending towards the end. 



Tail-feathers twelve. 



Baiige. Confined to Madagascar. 



[One genus only.] 



1. LEPTOSOMA. 



Tjpe. 



Leptosonius, Vieill. Analyse, p. 28 (1816) ; . . . . Ij. discolor. 



Crombus, Reichenb, Handh., Merop. p. 51 (1852) L. discolor. 



Eange. Confined to Madagascar, the islands of Mayotte and 

 Anjuan, and Great Comoro. 



1. Leptosoma discolor. 



Le Grand Coucou de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 100, pi. 15. 



figs. 1, 2 (1760) ; Dcmhent.Pl. Enl. vi. pis. 587, 588. 

 Le Vouron-Driou, Moatb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 395 (1770). 



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