34. couA. 409 



a, h. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Rev.W. Deans Cowan 



[C.]. 

 c, d. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Forbes Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Madagascar {Crosslet/). Shelley Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Forest of Ancoya. Purchased. 



4. Coua cristata. 



Le Coucou huppe de Madagascar, i/y/s.y. Orti. iv. p. 14!», pi. xii. fisr. 2 



(17G0) ; DauO. I'l. Enl. vi. pi. 589. 

 Cuculus cristatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 171 (176GJ ; Wcihl -Iliis, 



1869, p. 335. 

 Le Coua, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 365, pi. 16 (1779) ; Levaill. 



Ois. Aft: V. p. 67, pi. 217 (1806) ; 8undev. Krit, Framst. om Levaill. 



p. 48 (1857). 

 Cuculus (Coua) cristatus, Cuv. Jtef/ne An. i. p. 425 (1817). 

 Coccyzus cristatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. yiii. p. 274 (1817); id. Eno. 



Meth. p. 1340 (1823) ; Less. Traite, p. 138 (1831). 

 Madagascar Cuckow, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iii. p. 270 (1822). 

 Coua cristatus, Gray in Griff'. An. Kingdom, vii. p. 458 (1829) ; 



id. Gen. B. ii. p. 454 (1846) ; Iteichh. Nat. Syst. Voq. pi. 66 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consjh i. p. 109 (1850) ; id. Vol. Zyyod. p. 120 (1854) ; Schl. 



Handl. Dierh. 1857, p. 206; Hartl. J. f. O. 1860, p. 110; 



Roch ^ E. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 166 ; Schl. Mas. Pays-Bas, 



Ciiculi, p. 46 (1864) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 424 ; Grand. Rev. et 



May. Zoul. 1867, p. 392 ; Schl. Sf Poll. Faun. Madaq., Ois. ii. p. 56 



(1868); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 208. no. 8886 ( 1-^70) ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 399 ; Pull. Fauna Maday. i. p. 198 (1877) ; Hartl. 



Voy. Maday. p. 243 (1877). 

 Serisoiiuis cristatus. Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 323 (1837); A. Ncwfon, 



P. Z. S. 1865, p. 834. 

 Sericosomus cristatus, Cab. S)- Heine, Mas. Hein. iv. p. 72, note 



(1862) ; Cab. Von d. Decken's Reis. iii. p. 39 (1869) ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 612. 

 Coua cristata typica, Milne-Edw. 8f Grand. Hist. Maday., Ois. i. 



p. 143, Atlas, i. pi. 44 (1879). 



Adult. Above delicate ashy grey, strongly glossed with green on 

 the mantle and inner half of the wings ; rerauiuder of the quills 

 and the tail bright glossy blue, the latter with broad white ends to 

 all but the centre feathers ; a bare patch round the eye violet- blue, 

 surmounted by a well-marked black eyebrow ; cheeks and upper 

 half of the throat grey like the back of the neck, paler on the chin ; 

 lower throat and fore part of the chest bright rufous-buff, with a 

 pink tint in front and passing gradually into white on the remainder 

 of the body and under tail-coverts : under wing-coverts white, 

 obscurely barred with pale ashy grey ; under surface of the quills 

 dusky, partially glossed with lilac-blue. Bill black ; iris red ; legs 

 slate-colour. Total length 13"8 inches, culraen 0'9,wing 5"3, t;iil 8, 

 tarsus 1"G. 



llah. The woodlands of Xorth and East Madagascar. 



n. Ad. St. Madagascar. .Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



/;. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Seebohm Coll. 



c, d. <S ad. sk. Madagascar (Cmssley). Slmrpe Coll. 



^^fy'.l- <S ad.sk. Madiigascar,(.)ct. ^ ( /V/H Z)rt«i)- ShelU-y ("oil. 



