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18. HAETLAUBIUS. 



Type. 

 Hartlaubius, Bp. C. R. xxxvii. p. 830 (1853) . . II. inadagascariensis. 



Ii(t)ir/e. Confined to Madagascar. 



1. Hartlaubivs madagascariensis. 



Lo Merle de iMada-ascar, L'ri^s. Oni. ii. p. 274, pi. 25. fig-. 1 (17('.0) ; 



Dauhent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 557. tig. 1. 

 Le Tanaombe, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 386 (1775). 

 Turdus auratus, P. L. S. Milll. Syst. Nat. Huppl. p. 140 (177G) ; 



Cassin, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 249. 

 Madagascar Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 68 (1783). 

 Turdus madagascariensis, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 32 (1783) ; Gm. 



Syst. Nat. i. p. 823 (1788). 

 Turdus madagascarius, Hermann, Tahl. A-ffln. Anim. p. 210 (1783). 

 Acridotheres gracilirostris, Drap. Diet. Class, vii. p. 152 (1841). 

 Saroglossa madagascariensis. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 328 (1846) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 418 (1850); /. TF. von Milll. J.f. O. 1855, p. 459. 

 Hartlaubius madagascariensis, Bp. C. R. xxxvii. p. 831 (1853) ; Hartl. 



J.f. 0. 1860, p.'l04; id. Beitr. Faun. Maday. p. 52 (1861) : Rock 



l^ E. Newt. Ibis, 1862, p. 275 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 163 ; E. 



Neivt. Ibis, 1863, p. 349 ; Verr. in Vinson's Vol/. Maday., Ann. B. 



p. 2 (1865) ; A. Neict. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 836; Sehl. P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 423 ; Grand. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1867, p. 357 : Schl. ^ Poll. 



Faun. 3Iaday. p. 105 (1868) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 396; id. 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 56 (1871) ; Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. 207 (1877); 



Milne'-Edtcards S^ Grandid. H. N. Maday., Ois. p. 311, pis. cxv., 



cxiii. B, cxvi. (1879). 

 Saroglossa aurata. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 28, no. 6397 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, with a slight 

 greenish bronzy gloss ; scapnlars like the back, with a little more 

 green gloss ; rump and upper tail-coverts greenish black, glossed 

 with purple ; wing-coverts brown, glossed externally with bronzy 

 olive-green, especially distinct on the greater coverts ; bastard-wing 

 purplish black, the outer web white ; primary-coverts and quills 

 purplish black, externally purple, green on the inner secondaries, 

 the primaries black at base and pure white for nearly the whole of 

 the outer web ; tail-feathers black, externall}' steel-green, the two 

 centre cues entirely greenish black, the two outer ones white along 

 the outer web ; crown of head, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 throat, and fore neck darker chocolate-brown than the back ; sides 

 of neck, chest, breast, sides of body, and flanks lighter and more 

 earthy brown, somewhat varied with whitish edges to the feathers ; 

 abdomen, thighs, .sides of vent, and under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; quills below blackish, 

 white along the inner edge : " bill and feet black ; iris brown " 

 (Grandidier). Total length 7"5 inches, culracn 0'8, wing 4-2, 

 tail 3, tarsus O'S. 



Adult female. Much lighter brown than the male, the gloss on 

 the wings and tail not so distinct and much greener; the under 

 surface of the body much lighter brown, the thighs and under tail- 



