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NOTE XXX. 

 ON HYPHERPES CORALLIROSTRIS NEWTON. 



BY 



H. SCHLEGEL. 



March T879. 



This species was established after a single specimen 

 without indication of the sex. See Newton in Proc. Zol. 

 Soc. London, 1863, p. 85, pi. 13. Crossley collected two 

 other specimens (Sharpe, ibid. 1871, p. 318), and Hart- 

 laub, Vogel Madagascars, 1877, p. 105, mentions a few 

 other specimens existing in different collections. They 

 were all obtained in the North-East part of Madagascar 

 from Tamatave upwards along the bay of Antongil. A 

 small series of specimens collected in the latter locality, 

 containing specimens of both sexes , proved , that there 

 exists a constant difference of color between the two sexes , 

 and that all the specimens hitherto described belong to 

 the female sex. This sex indeed is distinguished by having 

 the underside of a sordid fulvous reddish brown , washed 

 with grayish green. The male, on the contrary, has all 

 these parts tinged with the same color as is seen on the 

 upperside of the bird. 



Mr. Audebert states that this bird , creeping in among the 

 foliage of the tops of the highest trees of the primeval forest , 

 is obtained with great difficulty. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuxn. 



