28. C0EAC0P8IS. : ^ S: > 



Vasa nigra, Schler/. Dierent. p. 71 (1864). 



Vaza nigra, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 159, d. 82G3 (1870) *. 



Adult. Exactly like G.vasa, only much smaller; naked skin 

 round the eyes rose-colour : bill black after the moult, becomes 

 whitish later on ; irides brown ; feet blackish. . Total length 15-6 

 inches, wing 1-3, tail 6'5, bill 1-08, tarsus 0-68. 



Female. Smaller. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



3. Coracopsis comorensis. 



Coracopsis comorensis, Peters, Sitzb. der Berl. Akad. der Wissensch. 



1854, p. 371 ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 71 (18-54) ; Hartl. Journ.f. 



Orn. 1880, p. 107 ; id. Orn. Beitr. Faun. Madaq. p. 59 (1861) ; 



Srlat. Ibis, 1864, pp. 295, 300 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 474 ; Hartl. 



Fog. Madag. p. 230 (1877) ; E. Newt. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 296, 302 ; 



Oust. Bull.' Soc. Plnlom. (7) ii. p. 165 (1878) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 674; Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 261 {Consp. Psitt. 



p. 149) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 70 (1883) ; Miine-Edw. et Oust. 



Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) x. p. 226(1889). 

 Coracopsis comarensis, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 258; 



G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 3 (1859). 

 Psittacus comorensis, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 304 (1868) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. iii. p. 335 (1^77). 

 Psittacus obscurus, part., Schley, et Pull. Rech. Faun. Madaq. p. 157 



(1868). 

 Vaza comorensis, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 160, n. 8266 (1870). 



Adult. Very much like C. vasa and about the same size, but the 

 general brown colour paler, and the grey colour of the wings and 

 tail less bluish and more brownish ; under tail-coverts not grey but 

 light brown, like the rest of the underparts : irides brown ; bill and 

 cere brown ; feet blackish brown. Total length 19 inches, wing 

 11-5, tail 8-5, bill 1-3, tarsus 0-9. 



It seems that the following quotations also refer to Coracopsis niqra : 



Psittacus t'useus, Bliss. Orn. iv. p. 314 (1760) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 333 n 99 

 (1788); Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. Ill, n. 88 i I7'.mi i; I;.],,'. Kur-e Ccber* 

 p. 90 (1812) ; Wagl. Mm. Psitt. p. 73'.) (1832) (av. dub.). 



Perroquet brun, Buff. Hist. Nat. OtS. vi. p. 121 (1779). 



Brown Parrot, Lath. 8m. i. p. 266 (1781). 



Ash-brown Parrot. La'/i. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 214 {1822). 



