382 PSITTACIDJ2. 



and tail glaucous grey ; the smaller and median upper wing-coverts 

 darker, blackish brown ; under tail-coverts grey, with black shafts ; 

 across the middle of the tail a darker band, scarcely perceptible : 

 naked skin round the eyes and cere yellowish ; bill black after the 

 moult, becomes whitish later on ; irides and feet dusky brown. 

 Total length about 20 inches, wing 12, tail 8, bill 1*55, tarsus 0*9. 



Female. Duller. 



Hub. Madagascar. It has been introduced in Reunion Island. 



a. Ad. sk. Madagascar. The Duke of Sussex [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Madagascar, June. Shelley Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Madagascar. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Juv. sk. Tainatave, Madagascar, Purchased. 



Juue. 



2. Coracopsis nigra. 



Black Parrot, Edw. Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 5, pi. 5 (1750) ; Lath. Syn. 

 i. p. 264 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 212 (1822). 



Psittacus madagascariensis niger, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 1317 (1760). 



Psittacus niger, Linn. S. N. i. p. 145, n. 29 (1766) {ex Edwards) ; 

 Gm. S. N. i. p. 336, n. 29 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. Ill, 

 n. 86(1790); Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 529 (1811); Bechst. 

 Lath. Ueb. p. 89 (1812) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 317 (1817) ; Kuhl, 

 Consp. Psitt. p. 28 (1820) ; Vieill. Enc. MM. iii. p. 1369, pi. 227. 

 f. 2 (1823) ; Voifft, Cuv. Uebers. p. 729 (1831) ; Sganz. Mem. Soc. 

 Hist. Nat. Sfasb. iii. p. 35 (1840) ; Sehlecj. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, 

 p. 37 (1864) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 424 ; Finsch, Papag. ii. pp. 298, 

 955 (1868) ; Schleg. et Poll. Iiech. Faun. Madag. pp. 52, 157 

 (1868); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Berne, p. 10 (1874); Gieb. 

 Thes. Orn. hi. p. 341 (1877). 



Le Perroquet noir de Madagascar, Daubent. PI. Enl. 500. 



Le Vaza, on Perroquet noir, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 119 (1779). 



Le Petit Vaza, Levaill. Pen: pi. 82 (1805). 



Psittacus vaza, var., Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 197 (1831). 



Coracopsis nigra (part.), Wagl, Mon. Psitt. p. 680 (1832) ; G. P. Gr. 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 407, n. 2 (partim) (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 7 

 (1850) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 2 (1859) ; Hartl. 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 107 ; id. Orn. Beitr. Faun. Madag. p. 58 

 (1861) ; Roch fy E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 165; Sclat. P. Z. 6'.1863, 

 p. 164 ; E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 452 ; Finsch, Ned. Tijdsehr. Dierk. 

 i. Berigt. p. xx (1863) ; Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, 

 p. 389; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisboa, Psittaci, p. 22 (1869) ; Sundev. 

 Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 70 (1872) ; Bartl. P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 67; Milne-Ediv. et Grand. Hist. Madag., Ois. i. p. 6, Atl. 

 pis. hi., iv., vi. (1876); Hartl. Von. Madag. p. 227 (1877); Oust. 

 Bull. Soc. Philo7n. (7) ii. p. 1U5 (1878) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1879, p. 305; 

 Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 261 {Consp. Psitt. p. 149); id. 

 VogelbUd. text to Taf. vii. f. 8 (1883) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 

 p. 336 (1883) ; Milne-Edw. et Otist. Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) vi. 

 p. 229 (1884) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 78 (1889) ; Sibree, Madag. 

 Orn. pp. 13, 21 (1889) ; id. Ibis, 1891, pp. 212, 214. 



Vigorsia niger, Siv. Class. B. ii. p. 304 (l837). 



Coracopsis niger, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 155, n. 245 ; 

 Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 223 ; Bp. Naumannia, 

 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 256 ; A. $ E. Newt. Lbis, 1876, p. 285 (note). 



