11. ALECTRCENAS. 



165 



Ptilonopus madagascariensis, G. It. Gr. Gen. B. App. p. 23 (1849) ; 



id. List B. Brtt. Mus. Columb.e, p. 9 (1866). 

 Funingus madagascariensis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 29 (18">4) ; id. 



Compt Bend, xxxix. p. 880 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 68 (185")) ; id. 



Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pi</. pp. 12, 55, n. 68 (1855); Hartl. J. f. O. 



I860, p. Ill ; id. Beiir. Faun. Madag. p. 64 (1861) ; lichnb. Tau- 



ben,i. p. 122, t. 234. f. 1301 (1862); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 164 ; 



Rock # E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 167; Pollen, N. T. D. i. p. 317 



(1863); Qrandid. Rev. et May. <le Zool. 1867, p. 418; Aquarone, 



Bull. Soc. Imp. Acclim. 1869, p. 361 ; Sharpe, P. Z. 6'. 1870, p. 399; 



Sousa, Mus. Nae. Lisb. Columbse, p. 9 (1873) ; Bartl. P. Z. 8. 1879, 



p. 772 ; Milne-Edw. fy Qrandid. Hist. Madag:, Ois. p. 476, pi. cxc. 



f. 2, pis. exciii., exciv. (1885) : Sibree, Ibis, 1891, p. 564. 

 Ptilopus madagascariensis, Schkg. Da Dierent. p. 211 (1864) ; id. 



P.Z. S. 1866, p. 424; Schlep. $ Poll. Reck. Faun. Madag., Ois. 



p. 115 (1868); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbae, p. 43 (1873) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 365 (1877). 

 Furningus madagascariensis, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 228, n. 9165 



(1870). 

 Alectorcenas madagascariensis, A. Neiut. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 4. 



Adult male. Indigo-blue ; throat and neck slaty grey, passing 

 almost into indigo-blue on the forehead, crown, nape, cheeks, and 

 ear-coverts ; the slate-grey of the neck not sharply defined in front, 

 but gradually passing on the crop into the colour of the breast ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail dark crimson, glossed at the base of the 

 upper tail-coverts with blue or with green ; tail with nearly the 

 entire inner webs and the bases of all the feathers blue-black, also 

 the outer tail-feathers almost entirely blue-black ; tail underneath 

 black with blue-green reflections ; longer under tail-feathers dull 

 crimson towards the apical half; hind feathers of the legs, feathers 

 of the vent, and basal under tail-coverts white with brown olive- 

 green tips and edges : " bare skin round the eyes red ; iris red, or 

 yellowish green surrounded with red ; bill slate-olive, yellowish 

 white towards the tip ; feet red, powdered with white between the 

 scales" (Qrandidier, SheHty). Total length 11 inches, wing 7, 

 tail 3-8, bill 0-6, tarsus 0-85. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Blackish green inste id of indigo-blue (Schhgel). 



Hah. Madagascar with Xossibe Island, off the N.W. coast. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. cJ ad. sk. 

 (I. e. Ad. sk. 



f. Ad. sk. 



g. d ad. sk. 

 ft. Ad. sk. 



I. (J juv. sk. 



Madagascar. 



Madagascar. 



Madagascar, Aug. 



Madagascar. 



Madagascar. 



Madagascar. 



N.E. Madagascar {Van 



Dam). 

 Arkafana, Madagascar, 



)ln.ruh(Deaus Cowan). 



Purchased. 



E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



Shelley Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Van Dam _C.]. 



Salvin-Goaman Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



