43(; 



50. NELICURVIUS. „ 



Tvpe. 



Nelicui-\iu8, y,)j, Cousp. i. p. 459 (1850) N. iielicourvi. 



liinKje. Confiued to Madagascar. 



1. Nelicurvius nelicourvi. 



Le Nelicourvi de Madagascar, Sunn. Vol/. Ind. ii. p. I'CO, jil. cxii. 



Pensile Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. ]). l;"!l (178.'!). 



Parvus (evr.jn'o Parus) nelicourvi, 8evp. Del. Faun, et Flvr. InMihr. 



p._96 (1786). 

 Loxia peusilis, Gm, Syst. Kaf. i. p. 8G0 (1788) ; Dand. Trai'ie, ii. 



p. 390(1800). 

 Ploceus peusilis, Vteill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 128 (1819) ; 



Less. Compl. Bnf. viii. p. 311 (1837) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 18G0, p. 423 ; 



id. ^' Poll. Faun. Mudar/., Ois. p. 108 (1868) ; Skarpe, P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 395 ; Milne-Fdtcards ^~ Grandid. H. N. Madag., Ois. 



p. 446, Atlas, pi. 177^ fig-. 2, aud pis. 179, 180 (1885). 

 Ploceus nelicourvi, Haiti. Ann. l<f Ma;/. Nat. Hist. (2) ii. p. 389 



(1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 352 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 44, 



uo. 6617(1870). 

 Nelicurvius peusilis, Bp. Cimsp. i. p. 439 (1850) ; FLartL Faun. Madag. 



p. 54 (18G1) ; Reiehenh. Singv. p. 74, Taf. xxxiii. fig. 261 (1861); 



E. Ketvton, Ibis, 1863, p. 349 ; Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1867, p. 388. 

 Hypbantoruis peusilis, Ilartl. Viig. Madag. p. 210 (1877). 

 Nelicurvius uelicom-vi, Bartlett, P. Z. »S'. 1879, p. 771. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-green, tbe wing-coverts 

 like the back; quiUs aud tail-fcatliers dusky blackish, externallj' 

 olive-green ; the centre tail-feathers dull olive-yellow, dusky blackish 

 at the ends ; head, ear-coverts, fore part of cheeks, and a spot on 

 the chin black ; hinder cheeks, sides of neck, and a collar round the 

 hind neck, as well as the throat and fore ucck, bright orange-yellow, 

 inclining to deep orange ou the hinder neck ; sides of tore neck 

 olive-yellow like the back : remainder of under surface frona the 

 chest downwards clear slaty grey, washed with olivc-grcen on the 

 lower flanks and thighs ; under tail-coverts chestnut; under wing- 

 coverts pale ashy, washed with olive-yellow, the edge of the wing 

 brighter yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner webs : 

 " bill black ; feet maroon ; iris brown " {A. Grandidier). Total 

 length 5-8 inches, culmen 0"65, wing K'O, tail I'D, tarsus 0-85, 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the black on the 

 head and sides of face ; the j'ellow neck-band and throat are the 

 same as in the male ; the forehead also is j-ellow, as well as the eye- 

 brow, the crown being olive-green and the ear-coverts dusky olive, 

 forming a patch ; the fore neck is olive-green between the yellow 

 throat and the grey breast, which are like the male. Total length 

 5-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-95, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-75. 



Young. Olive-green, the head being like the back ; ear-coverts 

 dusky olive; au eyebrow, feathers in front of eye, cheeks, throat, 



