3. ATELOEJ^rS. 7 



Avhite, the flanks brownish and everywhere mottled with black and 

 white cross-bars ; the centre of the abdomen unmottled ; under 

 wing-coverts reddish brown mixed with white, and a line of pure 

 white feathers running along the radius : " feet reddish ; iris 

 brown " (A. Grandidier). Total length 12 inches, culmen Vo, 

 wing 5, tail 4-3, tarsus 2-05. 

 Nab. Madagascar. 



a. Ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar, Feb. (A. Crosslei/). Sbarpe Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar {A. Crossley). Shelley Coll. 

 c,d. S ? ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar, Feb. {Auaehert). Shelley Coll. 



3. ATELORNIS. 



Type. 



Atelomis, Pucker. Sev. Zool. 1846, p. 200 A. pittoides. 



Corapitta *, Bp. Cimsp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (18o4) A. pittoides. 



Eunye. Confined to Madagascar. 



Kiy to the Sj^ecies. 



a. Head blue, with white spots on the eyebrow ; lores 



and ear- coverts and cheeks black; a large blue 



patch at the sides of the neck pittoides, p. 7. 



b. Head rufous like the sides of the face ; throat striped 



with black and white crossleyi, p. 8. 



1. Atelornis pittoides. 



Brach^'pteracias pittoides, Lafi: Mac/, de Zool. 1834, pi. .32 ; Grcty, 



Gen. B. i. p. 61 (184o) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 35 (1848) ; 



B]}. Consp. i. p. l66 (1850) ; Sc/d. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 1-38 



(1867) ; Grand. Rev. et Ma(/. de Zool. 1867, p. 354 ; Schl. Sf Poll. 



Faun. Madat/., Ois. p. 158 (1868) ; Grm/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 77, 



no. 914 (1S69) ; Milne- Edwards Sf Grandid. H. N. Maday., Ois. i. 



p. 244, pis. 103 «, 103 b, 104, 104 a (1879). 

 Atelornis pittoides, Pucher. Per. Zool. 1846, p. 200; Reichenh. 



Ilandb., Merop. p. 53, pi. 436. fig. 3193 (1852); Hartl. Faun. 



Madaq. p. 28 (1861) ; Rocli Sf E. Ketct. Ibis, 1862, p. 271, pi. 9; 



E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 341; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 398; id. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 383, pi. viii. ; Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. 74 (1877). 

 Corapitta pittoides, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Anis. p. 7 (1854). 



Adidt. Head very deep cobalt, a little brighter over the eye, 

 with the superciliary feathers minutely spotted with white, develop- 

 ing into a narrow white eyebrow above the eye and over the ear- 

 coverts ; lores, cheeks, and car-coverts deep black ; back of the 

 neck and upper part of the back chestnut-brown ; lower portion of 

 the back grass-green, somewhat tinged with olive on the upper 

 tail-coverts ; wing-coverts bright grass-green, the outer row of the 



* This name should have been written Coraz-opitta. This same generic title, 

 however, has been proposed for Milanopitta Ivfiubris of Schlegel by Dr. Sclater 

 (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 440), for which I propose the amended name of 

 Coraeocichla . 



