190 ARTAMIA BICOLOR 
Artamia schistocerca. 
Abbotornis schistocercus, Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. p. 11 (1908) 
West Central Madagascar. 
Adult. ‘Similar to A. chabert but smaller, with a much smaller bill and 
a differently coloured tail. Only the four median tail-feathers are black, the 
four outer pairs having the basal half white and the distal half black. The 
basal part of the feathers of the back and rump is white as well as the inner 
web of the outer upper tail-coverts. Culmen 0:55, wing 3°5, tail 1:95” 
(Neumann). 
The type and only example hitherto recorded is in the 
Tring Museum, and was obtained in Madagascar. 
Artamia bicolor. 
Lanius bicolor, Linn. Mantissa, p. 524 (1771). 
Artamia bicolor, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 108 (1883) ; Shelley, B. Afr. 
i. No. 655 (1896); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 263 (1903). 
Cyanolanius bicolor, Milne Edw. and Grand. Hist. Madag. Ois.i . p. 410, 
pls. 156, 156a, figs. 1, 157 (1885); Sibree, Ibis, 1891, p. 4386. 
Loxia madagascariensis, Linn. (non Lanius madagascariensis, ¢.c. p. 137) 
S. N. i. p. 306 (1766) Madagascar. 
Cyanolanius tibialis, Stejneger, Nyt Mag. Naturv. xxiv. p. 293 (1879). 
Blue Shrike, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. i. p. 178 (1781). 
Adult male. Upper parts brilliant cobalt blue; quills and outer wing- 
coverts black, with some blue on the edges of the feathers; centre tail- 
feathers blue with black ends; remainder of tail black, with the greater 
part of the outer webs, on the upper side, excepting the outer feather, blue ; 
a narrow band of black encircling the bill and extending over the face in 
front of the eye, under surface of the wings black, with the inner coverts 
pure white like the throat, breast, and under tail-coverts. ‘Iris red; bill 
pearl-grey, with the tip black; feet bluish grey” (Grandidier). “Iris 
bluish white” (Van Dam). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 3:4, 
tail 2:7, tarsus 0°7. N. EH. Madagascar g, (Van Dam). 
The Madagascar Blue and White Vanga is confined to 
that island. 
Grandidier writes: “These beautiful birds inhabit the 
east and north-west of Madagascar and apparently prefer 
