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lateral portions are of a rufous colour less pronouuced than on 

 the head and upper part of the neck; and on the feathers of the 

 central portion there are bands of white tinged with rufous and 

 brown. On the flanks some, but very few, are coloured in the 

 last-named manner; the rest is smoky brown tinged with rufous. 

 The abdomen is downy white. The coloration of the quills pre- 

 sents nothing peculiar; but the wing-coverts are darker green, 

 more mixed with rufous and brown than in the more adult spe- 

 cimens, and the spot at the apex is composed of two bands, the 

 lower one brownish black, the upper one white tinged with rufous, 

 and encircled above and below with brownish black. The back 

 is deep olive-brown. All over the present specimen the feathers 

 are downy and fluffy ; the upper mandible is dark brown, the 

 lower one horny yellow. [Puchei-an, I. c.) 



Hub. Madagascar [Crossley). 



Nothing has been recorded concerning the habits of this 

 Ground Roller. Mr. Crossley procured the specimen now in 

 my collection from the natives, who said that it was a night- 

 feeding bird like Brachypteracias. 



Genus 3. Atelornis. 



Type. 

 Atelornis, Puchcr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 200 . A. pittoides. 

 Corapitta, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854) A. pittoides. 



Atelornis pittoides. 



Brachypteracias pittoides, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1834, t. 32; 

 Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 61 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 35 

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

 Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 138 (1867) ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1867, p. 354; Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. p. 158 (1868) ; 

 Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 77 (1869). 



Atelornis pittoides, Vxicher. Uev. Zool. 1846, p. 200; Reich. 

 Handb. Merop. p. 53, t. ccccxxxvi. fig. 3193 (1852) ; Hartl. 

 J. f. 0. 1860, p. 84; Hartl. Orn. Madag. p. 28 (1861) ; Roch 

 & E. Newt. Ibis, 1862, p. 271 ; E. Newt. I-bis, 1863, p. 341 ; 

 Verr. in Vins. Voy. Madag. Ann. B. (1865); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 398. 



Corapitta pittoides, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854), 



