28. CORACOPSIS. :^81 



b. Underparts brown. 



c'. Larger : wing IPS inches comorensis, p. 383. 



d'. Smaller : wing not more than 8 inches. 



a". Primaries grey on their outer webs .... barklyi, p. 384. 

 b" . Primaries pale brown, like the rest of the 

 plumage, with no grey colour on their 

 outer webs sibilans, p. 384. 



1. Coracopsis vasa. 



Le Grand Vaza, Levaill. Pert: ii. p. 23, pi. 81 (1805). 



Psittacus vasa, Shaw, Gen. Zoo/, viii. 2, p. 528 (1811) (e.v Levai/Jant); 



Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 29 (1820); Sibree, Madag. and its People, 



p. 547 (1869). 

 Psittacus obscurus, Bechst. (nee Linn.') Lath. Ueb. p. 89 (1811) ; 



Sehleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 37 (1864) ; Schleg. et Poll. Rech. 



Faun. Madag. pp. 51, 157 (partim) (1868) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. 



Psittaci, Revue, p. 10 (1874). 

 Vasa Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 213 (1822). 

 Platvcercus vasa, Vig. Zool. Jburn. iii. p. 244 (1827) ; Benn. Gard. 



Sc'Menag. of the Zool. Soc. ii. p. 247 (1831). 

 Psittacus vaza, Less. Tr. a? Orn. p. 197 (1831); Finsch, Papaq. 



ii. pp. 301,955 (1868); Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 346 (partim) 



(1857). 

 Coracopsis nigra (part.), Wagl. Mori. Psitt. p. G80 (1832) ; G. R. Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 407, n. 2 (partim) (1846). 

 Vigorsla vasa, Sio. Class. B. ii. p. 304 (1837). 

 Coracopsis vasa, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 7 (1850) ; id. Rev. et Mag. de 



Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 246; Souanee, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, 



p. 223; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 237 ; Pelz. Nau- 



mannia, 1858, p. 497 ; Kollar, Sitzb. d. Ak. Wiss. zu Wien, 1858, 



p. 342 ; Hart/. Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 106 ; id. Orn. Beitr. Faun. 



Madag. p. 58 (1861) ; 'Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 164 ; E. Neat. Ibis, 



1863, p. 452 ; A. Newt. Ibis, 1865, p. 224 ; id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 834 ; 



Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, p. 389; Sousa, Mus. Nac. 



Lisboa, Psittaci, p. 22 ( 1869) ; A.SrE.Neivt. Ibis, 1876, p. 284; Oust. 



Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7) ii. p. 165 (1878) ; Sclat. List Vert. 



An. 8th ed. p. 335 (1883) ; id. P. Z. S. 1884, pp. 410, 562. 

 Coracopsis vaza, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 2 (1859) ; 



Maillard, Not. sur Vile de la Reitn. p. 162 (1862) (Reunion) ; 

 . Pollen, Ned. Tijdschr. DierL i. p. 299 (1863) ; Roeh $ E. Newt. 



Ibis, 1863, p. 165; Hart/. Fog. Madag. p. 228(1877); Rchnw. 



Vogelbild. t. vii. f. 8 (1878-83). 

 Coracopsis mehinorhvncha, Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. 



p. xx (1863); Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 260 {Cvnsp. Psitt. 



p. 118). 

 Vaza obscura, Schleg. Hand!, d. Dierk. i. p. 71 (1857) ; id. Dierent. 



p. 71 (with figure) (1864) ; Cotpier. Bull. Soc. Accl. de la Reun. 



ii. p. 10 (1864). 

 Vaza vaza, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 159, n. 8264 (1870). 

 Vaza melanorhvncha, G. R. Gr. op. cit. n. 8265 (1870). 



Coracop ? is obscura, Milne-Edw. et Grand. Hist. Madag., Ois. i. p. 1, 

 Atl. pis. i., ii., v. (1876); Rchnw. Vogelbild., Syst. Verz. n. 270 

 (1883) ; Sibree, Madag. Orn. pp. 13, 21 (1889) ; id. Ibis, 1891, 

 pp. 212,214. 



Adult. Blackish brown ; wings, lower back, upper tail-coverts, 



