508 PSITTACIDJE. 



Agapornis cana, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 242; E. Newt. Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 273 (Mauritius), 1865, p. 149 (Rodriguez) ; A. Newt. Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 32 ; id. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 42 ; JRchmv. Vocjelbild. t. xx. f. 5 (1878- 

 83) ; id. .Town. f. Orn. 1881, p. 259 (Consp. Psitt. p. 147) ; Salvin, 

 Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 461 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 

 p. 330 (1883) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 76 (1889). 



Psittacula madagascariensis, Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierh. i. Beri^t. 

 p. xix (1863) ; Milne-Ediv. et Grand. Hist. Madag., Ois. i. p. 17, 

 pis. 7, 8 (1876) ; Milne-Edw. # Oust. Nouv. Arch, du Mas. (2) \ i. 

 p. 229 (1884) ; Sibree, Madag. Orn. pp. 15, 22 (1889). 



Agapornis madagascariensis, Sibree, Ibis, 1891, pp. 214, 217. 



Adult male. Head, neck, aud breast pearly grey, with the base of 

 the feathers pale yellowish green, showing more or less through the 

 grey edges; back and wings green, uropvgium and upper tail-coverts 

 brighter green ; lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish green ; quills dusky black, with the outer web green ; under 

 wing-coverts black, metacarpal edge whitish ; tail green, with a 

 broad subterminal black band ; the lateral tail-feathers have the 

 base yellowish : iris brown ; bill, feet, and toes grey. Total length 

 5-6 inches, wing 3"65, tail 2, bill - 5, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. .Differs from the mule in wanting the grey colour 

 on the head, neck, and upper breast ; the upper parts, including the 

 hind neck and pileum, green ; underparts, including the cheeks, the 

 throat, and upper breast, yellowish green ; under wing-coverts 

 green. 



Young. Like the female. In the transitional stage, while the 

 head, throat, and upper breast are beginning to show a grey tinge, 

 the nape and hind neck are still green. 



Hub. Madagascar, but introduced in Mauritius, Reunion, Rodri- 

 guez, Anjuan, and perhaps also in Mafia Island, south of Zanzibar. 



The series of specimens in the British Museum can be divided 

 into two sets. In one set, from Madagascar and Anjuan, the green 

 colour is pure ; in the other set, from Rodriguez, but including also 

 two specimens from Betsileo in Madagascar, collected by the Rev. W. 

 D. Cowan, the green colour has a distinct bluish tinge. I cannot 

 account for the difference. If the bluish birds were confined to 

 Rodriguez Island, I should have said they belonged to a peculiar 

 race. 



Green Form. 



a. Ad. st. Madagascar. Purchased. 



b. Ad. st. Madagascar. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Sharpe Coll. 



d. 2 a( h i e : f- Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 

 Ad. sk. 



ff, h. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Anjuan (Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



Bluish Form. 



1. Ad. sk. Ankafana, S. Betsileo, Mada- Twceddale Coll. 



gascar, March ( W. Eeaus 

 Cowan). 



