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Adult. Upper parts deep indigo-blue, glossed with purple on the 

 mantle and slightly with green on the wings and tail ; tail-feathers, 

 with the exception of the four centre ones, with white ends ; hare 

 patch round the eye indigo-blue, surrounded by black feathers 

 which extend over the ear-coverts aud cheeks ; entire throat and 

 front of chest white ; remainder of uuderparts chestnut, inclining 

 to deep chocolate-brown on the under tail-coverts ; bill aud legs 

 black ; iris brown. Total length 22-2 inches, culmen l*7,wing 8-3, 

 tail 12, tarsus 2-9. 



Bab. Eastern Madagascar near Tamatave. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



Madagascar. 

 Madagascar. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Purchased. 



Subfamily IV. NEOMORPHIN^. 



Kaj to the Genera. 



a. Bill stronger aud deeper ; depth of bill 



greater than half the distance from the 

 nostril to the tip. 



a' . Feathers of the forehead not extend- 

 ing forward to the nostrils. Cidmen 

 broad and rounded near the forehead ; 

 nostril a horizontal sUt with no over- 

 hanging membrane 



b'. Feathers of the forehead^extending for- 

 ward on to the membrane which 

 overlaps the nostrils, which are hori- 

 zontal slits. Culmen mucli com- 

 pressed towards the forehead 



b. Bill thinner and not so deep ; depth of 



bill less than half the distance fi'om the 



nostril to the tip. 

 c. Tail longer, more narrow and pointed . 37. Gkococcyx, p. 419. 

 d'. Tail shorter and not so pointed, the 



feathers being broader 38. Mohococcyx, p. 422. 



35. CABPOCoccyx, p. 414. 



30. Neomobphu.s, p. 4]o. 



Type. 

 C. radiatus. 



35. CARPOCOCCYX. 



Carpococcyx, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 56 (1840) . . , 

 Range, Confined to Borneo. 



1. Carpococcyx radiatus. 



Calobates radiceus, Temm. PI. Col. 538 (1832) ; »S'. Miill. Verli. Nat. 



Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 234, note (1839-44) ; Low, Sarawak, 



p. 411 (1848). 

 Calobates radiatus, Temm. Tail. Meth. p. 53 (1838). 

 Carpococcyx radiceus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 56 (1840) ; id. Gen. B. 



ii. p. 460, pi. 17. fig. 5 (1845). 

 Carpococcyx radiatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 97 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vol. 



Zygod. p. 5 (1854) ; Cah. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 71, note 



