20 TEEKONIDJE. 



claws yellow" (Newton). Total length 14 - 2 inches, wing 6-75, 

 tail 4 - 3, culmen 0-55, tarsus 1*1, 



Female. Like the male. 



Young birds have the under tail-coverts more or less greenish 

 in the centre. 



Bab. Madagascar. 



a. S ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 



b. $ ad.sk. N.W.Madagascar. Van Darn [C.]. 



c. $ ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



4. Vinago calva. 



Coluraba calva, Temm. 8f Snip, Pig. i. p. 35, pi. 7 (had) (1808) 

 (Loanaro or Angola) ; Temm. Hist. Nat. Pic/, i. pp. 63, 442 (1813) ; 

 VieillN. D. xxvi.p. 390 (1818) ; id. Enc. Meth. i. p. 378, pi. 238. 

 f. 4 (1823) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 367 (1826) ; Wagl Syst. 

 Av. Columba, sp. 3 (1827). 



Vinago calva. Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. 1, p. 117 (1819) ; Cuv. Regn. An. 

 (2nd ed.1 i. p. 492 (1829). 



Treron calva, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 273 (1826) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. 

 ii. p. 467, n. 10 (1844) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av. Novit. Columbariae, f. 3370 

 (1851); Hartl. J. f. 0. 1854, p. 205, 1855, p. 361 (Gold Coast); G.R. 

 Gr. List B. Brit. Mas. Columbas, p. 14 (18-56) ; Hartl. Syst. Orn. 

 W.-Afr. p. 192 (1857) ; id. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 266 (Bissao) ; Keulem. 

 N. T. D. iii. p. 396 (1866) (pt, Prince's Isl.) ; Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1866, 

 p. 329 (Prince's Isl.) ; Bocaye, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 1867, n. ii. p. 144, 

 n.' v. p. 46 (1868) ; Schley. # Poll. Rech. Faun. Madag. p. 117 

 (1868) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 194 (Fantee) ; id. P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 570 (Angola), 1870, p. 147 ( Angola) ; Finsch % Hartl. Vog. Ost- 

 Afr. p. 539, note (1870) ; Shell. $ Buckl. Ibis, 1872, p. 290 (Gold 

 Coast) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 468, 639 ; Sharpe, ibid. p. 715 ; 

 Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 70 (Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Lagos): Garrod, 

 P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 256, 257 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 306 (Bulama, 

 Bissagos Isl.); Rehnic.J.f 0. 1874, p. 388 (Cameroon and Gaboon), 

 1875, p. 48 ; Monteiro, Angola and Congo, ii. p. 169 (1875) ; Bocage, 

 J. f. 0. 1876, pp. 316, 434 ; Rchnw. J. f. 0. 1877, pp. 7, 14 (Loango) ; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb.xu. p. 94 (1879) (Angola), viii. p. 68 (1880) 

 (Caconda) ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 378 (1881) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 556 (1882) ; F Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 445 (1883) ; 

 Shell. Ibis, 1883, p. 267 (part.) ; Rochebr. Faun. Seney. p. 263 (1884) 

 (Senegambia) : Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. p. 436 (1884) 

 (Equatorial Africa) : Hartert, J.f 0. 1886, p. 604 (Xiger'Region) ; 

 Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 329 (1886) (Equatorial E. Africa) ; Bocage, 

 J. Sc. Lisb. xi. p. 252 (1887) : Rchnw. J.f. 0. 1887, pp. 50 (Kagelii), 

 302 (Congo) ; Sousa, J. Sc. Lisb. xii. p. 43 (Prince's Isl.), pp. 101, 

 227 (Angola) (1887-88) : Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 45 (1889) (Cape 

 Coast Castle) ; Rchnw. J. f. O. 1890, p. 109 (Cameroon) ; Hartert, 

 Eat. Vogelsamml. p. 191 (1891) ; Rchnw. J. f. O. 1891, p. 373 

 (Togoland), 1892, p. 15 (Victoria Njansa), p. 179 (Cameroon). 



Vinago nudirostris, Sir. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 205 (-with fig. of the beak) 

 (1837) (Senegal) ; Hartl. Nachtr. Syst. Verz. p. 16, n. 173 (1846) ; 

 Gord. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 12 (Cape Coast Castle) ; Terr. Rev. et 

 Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 421 (Gaboon) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1859, 

 p. 143. 



