194 STUKNID^. 



Whilst the previous sheets were passing through the press, the 

 Museum has beeu so fortunate as to procure from M. A. Boucard the 

 specimen of Fregilujms varius which was formerly in the Eiocour 

 collection. I find that this genus comes very close to Basihornis, 

 but differs in its much longer and more convex bill, its more exposed 

 nostrils, and in the long crest which commences at the base of the 

 bill. 



40. FREGILUPUS. ^ 



Type. 



Fregilupus, Less. Trmte, p. 324 (IS^l) I. vanus. 



Lophopsarus, Sundew Av. Meth. Tent. p. 40 (1872) F. Viirius. 



Range. Confined to the island of Reunion. 



1. Fregilupus varius. 



Huppe du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Dattbent. PI Enl. vi. pi. 697. 



La Huppe noire et blanche du Cap de Bonne Esp^rar.ce, Month. 

 Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 463 (1779). 



Madagascar Hoopoe, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 690 (1783). 



Upupa varia, BocJd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 43 ; Oi-ay^Gen. B. ii. p. 89 (1847). 



Upupa capensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 466 (1788). 



La Huppe grise, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor., Promerops, p. 15, pi. Ill 

 (1802). 



Le Merops hupps?, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Promerops, p. 43, pi. 18 (1806). 



Upupa madagascaviensis, Shaiv, Gen. Zool. viii. pt. i. p. 140 (1812). 



Coracia cristata, Vieill. N. Diet, dllist. Nat. viii. p. 3 (1817). 



Pastor upupa, Wagler, Syst. Av. Pastor, sp. 13 (1827). 



Fregilupus capensis. Less. Traite, p. 324 (1831) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 88 

 (1858). 



Fregilupus madagascarieusis, lieiclietib. Handh. Scans, p. 321, Taf. 

 dxcvi. fig. 4039 (1851) ; Harti. Orn. Beitr. Faun. Madag. p. 53 

 (1861); Scld. Sr Poll. Hist. Nat. Madag. p. 104(1868); 31urie, 

 P. Z. S. 1873, p. 200. 



Fregilupus borbonicus, Vinson, Bull. Soe. d'Acelim. 1868, p. 627. 



Lophopsarus varius, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 40 (1872). 



Fregilupus varia, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 28, uo. 6398 (1870). 



Fregilupus varius, Murie, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 474, pis. 61, 62 ; A. New- 

 ton, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 41 ; Hartl. Vbg. Madag. p. 203 (1877) ; 

 Sharpe, Nature, xl. p. 177 (1889). 



Adult. General colour above ashy brown, tlie lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts slightly washed with rufous ; wings and tail 

 rather more blackish brown, washed externally with ashy grey ; 

 primary-coverts white for the terminal half, with brown tips, forming 

 an alar speculum ; head light ashy grey, as also the hind neck, with , 

 a beautiful elevated crest, the feathers of which have white shafts ; 

 lores and eyebrow white ; ear-coverts light ashy grey, like the sides 

 of the neck ; cheeks, throat, and under parts white ; the flanks pale 

 vinous brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries also white ; quills 

 dusky below, ashy along the inner web. Total length 11 inches,] 

 culmen 1-25, wing 5-8, tail 4*5, tarsus 1'55. {Mus. Paris.) 



Young. Browner than the adult and not so grey ; the crest also [ 

 browner, and not nearly so large ; otherwise like the adults, j 

 {Mus. Paris.) 



