8 C0EACIID.T5. 



greater series washed with cobalt ; primary-coverts black ; quills 

 black, becoming brown towards the tip, white at the base of the 

 inner web, and the basal half of the outer web of all the primaries, 

 except the first, white, showing a conspicuous alar bar ; the 

 secondaries washed towards their ends with grass-green, the outer- 

 most with a slight tinge of blue towards the base, and the inner- 

 most tinged with olive-green like the scapulars ; tail deep cobalt, 

 except the two centre feathers, which are olive-brown ; entire 

 throat creamy white, bordered on each side by a triangular patch 

 of cobalt- blue feathers ; sides of neck beyond this blue patch rich 

 bay ; breast and flanks bay, duller on the latter ; centre of the 

 belly and under tail-coverts creamy white, the latter marked with 

 brown; imder wing-coverts whitish tinged with buff: " feet of a 

 rosy grey; iris brown '" (A. Grandidier). Total length 105 inches, 

 culmen 1-4, wing 4-5, tail 4-6, tarsus 1-7. 



Yomuj. Much duller in colour than the adults ; head dull blue, 

 with a huffy white eyebrow, but no white-tipped feathers ; blue 

 collar on sides of throat represented by a collar of dull black slightly 

 washed with blue ; throat white, with dusky blackish edges to the 

 feathers ; white wing-spot somewhat tinged with blue. 



Hah. E. Madagascar. 



a, b, Ad. sk. Madagascar. A. Crossley [C] 



c. Ad. sk. Madagascar {A. Crossley). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Madagascar (A. Crossley). Tweeddale Coll. 



e, Juv. sk. Madagascar (A. Crossley). Sharpe Coll. 



f, f/. Ad. sk. Madagascar (A. Crossley). Shelley Coll. 

 'h,'i. Skeletons. Madagascar (-4. Crossley). Purchased. 



2. Atelornis crossleyi. 



Atelornis crossleyi, Sharpe, F. Z. S. 1875, p. 74, pi. xiv. ; Hartl. Voy. 



Maday. p. 77 (1877). 

 Brachypteracias cvo&&\ey\,Milne-Edtv. Sf Grandid. Hist. Nat. Muday., 



Ois. i. p. 249, pis. 103, 103 h. 



Adult (type of species). Head rufous bay, lightest on the lores 

 and darker on the ear-coverts, shading off into dull greenish on the 

 hind neck ; entire back deep grass-green, as also tho upper tail- 

 coverts ; the tail black, more or less washed with green, the centre 

 tail-feathers washed with olive ; wing-coverts green like the back, 

 the greater series inclining to cobalt-blue at their tips, the outermost 

 ending in a conspicuous white spot; primary-coverts and quills 

 black, the latter white at the base, forming a transverse alar bar, 

 the secondaries externally green and thus resembling the back ; chin, 

 sides of face, and fore neck bright bay, the throat with a large 

 triangular patch of black, varied with dilated white shaft-streaks ; 

 rest of under surface dull ochraceous, paler in the centre of the 

 body ; the flanks and under tail-coverts washed with green ; under 

 wing-covorfcs black washed with greenish, and having two bars of 

 white across the wing, in addition to the more distinct white band 



