19. rnOT.IDAUGES. 



121 



coverts mottled with pale brown centres to the feathers. Total 

 length 7'4 inches, culmcn O'S, wing 4*05, tail 2*0, tarsus 0-8. 

 llah. Madagascar. 



«. Ad. sk. 



6. [ $ ] ad. sk. 

 c,d. [cTSlad. sk. 

 e. $ ad. sk. 

 /. (S ad. sk. 

 {/. S fid. sk. 

 h. S ad. sk. 

 i, k. d' ? ad. sk. 



Madagascar. 

 Madagascar. 

 Madagascar. 

 N. Madagascar. 

 N. Madagascar (Ci-osslei/). 

 N. Madagascar {C'rossky) 

 Bay of Autouzil. 

 N.E. Madagascar ( Van 

 Dam). 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Mr. Gerrard [C. |. 

 Mr. A. Cro.ssley"[C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sluirpe Coll. 

 yiiolley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



19. PHOLIDAUGBS. 



Cinnyriciuclus, Less. Rev. Zovl. 1840, p. 272 (pt.) . 

 Pholidauges, Vab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 198 (1850) 



Type. 

 P. leucogaster. 

 P. leucogaster. 



Head of 'Pholidauges leucogaster, to show form of bill. 

 Ranrje. Confined to Africa and Southern Arabia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No white on the base of the quills. 



«'. No white edgiug to the outer tail-feather 

 //. A white edging to the outer tail-feather . 



h. (^.uills with a white base 



1. Pholidauges leucogaster. 



leucogaster., p. 121. 

 verrcauj-i, p. 123. 

 biculor, p. 125. 



Ois. 



Merle violet a ventre blanc de Juida, Month. Hist. Nat. 



p. 402 (1775) ; Dnubcnt. PI. Enl. iii. pi. G48. fig. 1. 

 Whidah Thrush, Lath. Gni. 8yn. ii. pt. i. p. 58 (1783). 

 Turdiis leucogaster, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 819 (1788). 

 Lauiprocolius leucogaster, Hempr. Sf Ehr. Si/vib. Phi/s. fol. 3 (1828) ; 



liiipp. Neuc Wirbdth., Voi;. p. 24 (1835-40; ; Swains. B. W. Afr. 



i. p. 52, pi. 8 (1837) ; Ilmgl. Sgst. Uebers. p. 36 (1856). 

 Ciuuyricinclus leucogaster. Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 272. 

 Calornis leucogaster, Riipp. Sgst. Uebers. p. 75 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 416 (1850). 

 Juida leucogaster, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 327 (1846) ; Scl. Cuntr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 125 ; Sperlinq, Ibis, 1868, p. 290 ; Grag, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 24, no. 6348 (1870). 

 I'liolidaugos leucogaster, Cab. Mus. Hein. TJi. i. p. 198 (1850); 



Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 120 (1857); id. J. f. 0. 1859, p. 28, 1861, 



p. 174 ; Guniey, Ibis, 1862, p. 29 ; Brehvt, Reis. Habesch, pp. 217, 



