280 Mr. R. B. Shaipe on the 



Genus. 1. Brachypteracias. 



Type. 

 Brachyj)teracias, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1834^ pi. 31 B. leptusumus. 

 Chlorojnjgia, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333(1837) B. leptosumus. 



Brachypteracias leptosomus. 



Colaris leptosomus, Less. lUustr. de Zool. pi. 20 (1832). 



Brachypteracias leptosomus, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1834, Ois. 

 pi. 31 ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 61 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 35 (1848) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 166 (1850) ; 

 Reich. Handb. Merop. p. 53, t. ccccxxxvi. ligs. 3191-92 

 (1852) ; Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854) ; Hartl. 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 83 (1860) ; id. Orn. Madag. p. 28 

 (1861) ; E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 341 ; Verr. in Vins. Voy. 

 Madag. Ann. B. (1865) ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, 

 p. 354; Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. p. 158 (18G8) ; Gray, 

 Hand-1. of B. i. p. 77 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S.:(1870), p. 398. 



Brachypteracias collaris, Pucker. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 199. 



Chloropygia leptosomus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 

 (1837). 



Head and neck chestnut-brown, everywhere suffused with a 

 beautiful plum-coloured gloss ; a parting from the base of the 

 bill up the middle of the head and lores reddish brown, the latter 

 extending backwards over the eye and developing into a slight 

 white eye-brow ; cheeks and ear-coverts dark chestnut, spotted 

 and banded with white ; back and scapulars dull green, some- 

 what mixed with brown ; lower portion of the back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts green, inclining in some lights to cobalt ; 

 least wing-coverts, bordering the edge of the wing, green ; rest 

 of the wing-coverts brown, everywhere banded at the tip with 

 two lines of dark green, enclosing a rather broader one of white ; 

 quills brown, white at the base of the inner web ; the primaries 

 externally margined with fulvous, becoming white towards the 

 tip ; secondaries broadly washed with fulvous brown on the outer 

 web, and with greenish on the inner web, especially those 

 near the back, which blend with the scapulars; tail for the 

 most part coppery brown, the two middle feathers entirely of 

 this colour and glossed with greenish, all the other feathers 



