1. LEPIOSOJIA. 3 



gined with chestnut and glossed with coppery red ; tail brown, 

 becoming- black towards the tip, which is slightly edged with rufous ; 

 under surface of the body pale fawn-colour, everywhere spotted 

 with glossy greenish black ; the flank-feathers whitish at the tip. 

 Total length 17 inches, culmen 1-75, wing 10-2, tail 8-5, tarsus 

 l-2o. 



Yoii.nr/ male. Eesembles the old female, and has the head barred 

 with rufous, the underparts spotted with black, and the wing- 

 coverts edged with chestnut ; but it differs in having the whole of 

 the back ashy with green and coppery retiexions, though not so 

 pronounced as in the adult male. 



The adult males from Madagascar and ITayotte have the wing 

 from 10 to 10-3 inches, and the females from 10-2 to 10-G inches, 

 so that it appears that the hen birds are a little the larger. 

 Hub. Madagascar, Mayotte, and Anjuau Island. 



«. $ ad. sk. N.Madagascar (.4. D-oss%). Sharpe CoU. 



6, c. (5'juv.; et East of Antananarivo, Jidy. Eev. W. Deans 



2 ad. sk. Cowan [C.l. 



t?. 2 ad. sk. -Inkafana Forest, Betsileo, March 21 Shelley Coll. 



( W. Deans C'uwa/i). 



e,f. cJ ad. et N.E. Madagascar {Van Dam). Shelley Coll. 



juv. sk. 



g. cJ ad. sk. Madagascar. Mr. Gerrard [C.]. 



/*, /. 6 ? ad. Mayotte, May, June {Pollen Sf Van Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. Dam), 



k. [d' juv.] sk. Anjuan Island {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



/. cJ ad. St. Madagascar. Sir J. Kirk [C. 



7n. Skeleton. Anjuan Island. Sir J. Eark [0. 



Subsp. a. Leptosoma gracile. 



Leptosomus discolor Cnec Henn.), Scl. Ibis, 1861, p. 299 : Shelleii, 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 875 (pt.). 

 Leptosomus gracilis, Milne-Edw. Sc Oust. C. R. Acad. Sci. ci. 1885, 



p. 220 (1885). 

 Leptosomus discolor, var. gracilis, iid. Ann. Sci. A'at. Zool. 1887, 



art. no. 5, p. 219 j iid. N. Arch. Mus. (2) x. p. 2.39 (1888). 



Adult male. Similar to L. discolor, but smaller. Total length 

 14-5 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 8-6.5-9, tail 7, tarsus 1-05, 



Adult female. Similar to the female of L. discolor, but difleringin 

 its smaller size, paler coloration, and chestnut tail, the latter clouded 

 with blackish towards the ends and on the outer feather, a few bars 

 being seen on some of the tail-feathers also. Total length 14-5 

 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 8-4, tail 7, tarsus 1-1. 



The ijounrj mcde at first resembles the adult female and has the 

 same chestnut tail, but the back is more ashy, and the quills are 

 blackish, externally shot with green. 



Mab. Great Comoro Island. 



a, b. (S ad. et Great Comoro Island. M. Humblot fCl. 



juv. sk. " "^ 



c,d. cJ $ ad. Great Comoro Island {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



