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bird, procured them near Nossi Vola and Saralalan, where it was 

 called by the natives Vorun Seak. He gives a note: — "Iris 

 brown. Quite local.'^ 



Subfamily III. Leptosomin^. 



Genus 1. Leptosoma. 



Type. 

 Leptosomus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1342 (1823) . L. discolor ( 6 ). 

 Crombus, Reich. Handb. Merop. p. 51 (1852) . L. discolor ( $ ). 



Leptosoma discolor. 



Cuculus madagascariensis major, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 160, pi. xv. 

 figs. 1, 2 (1760). 



Le Grand Coucou de Madagascar, Buff. PI. Enl. 587, 588. 



African Cuckoo, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. ii. p. 332 (1782). 



Cuculus afer, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 419 (1788, ex Lath.) ; 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 217 (1790). 



Cuculus discolor, Herm. Affin. Anim. Tabl. p. 186 (1777). 



Le Vouroug Driou, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v. pi. 226, 227 ; 

 Sundev. Kritik om Levaill. p. 49 (1857). 



Bucco africanus, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 25 (1815). 



Leptosomus viridis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1342 (1823) ; 

 Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 (1837). 



Leptosomus afer, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv, p. 207 (1826) ; Bonap. 

 Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 96 (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1860, p. Ill ; 

 id. Orn. Madag. p. 63 (1861) ; Verr. in Vins. Voy. Madag. Ann. 

 B. (1865). 



Leptosoma afra, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Leptosomus crombec. Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 134 (1831). 



Crombus madagascariensis, Reich. Handb. Merop. p. 52, 

 t. ccccxxxv. fig. 3190 (1852). 



Leptosoma discolor, Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 682 ; A. Newt. 

 P. Z. S. 1865, p. 834 ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, 

 p. 354 ; Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. p. 157 (1868) ; Gray, 

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



Male. Crown of the head, which has a lanceolate crest, dull 

 plumbeous glossed with metallic green and copper ; lores, cheeks, 

 and a collar round the back of the neck cinereous ; entire back, 



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