192 ORIOLIA BERNIERI 
Genus III. ORIOLIA. 
Bill bluish grey, rather long and straight, with no notch, but a distinct 
hook at the end. The sexes differ greatly in colouring, the adult male 
plumage being entirely glossy greenish black, and the female, like the young 
male, is of a rufous-shaded brown barred with black. Tarsi and feet deep 
grey. In all its other characters it resembles Artamuia. 
Type. 
Oriolia, Geoffr. St. Hilaire, Rev. Zool. 1838, p.50 . . . O. bernieri. 
The genus is confined to the Island of Madagascar and only one species 
is known. 
Oriolia bernieri. 
Oriolia bernieri, Geoffr. St. Hilaire, Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 50 Madagascar ; 
Milne Edw. and Grand. Hist. Madag. Ois. i. p. 422, pls. 154a, figs. 3, 
162 (1885); Sibree, Ibis, 1891, p. 436; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 657 
(1896); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 263 (1903). 
Artamia bernieri, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 108 (1883). 
Adult male. Entire plumage black, with a purplish blue gloss. ‘ Iris, 
bill and feet pearl-grey ’’ (Grandidier). Total length 9-6 inches, culmen 1:0, 
wing 4°7, tail 3-5, tarsus 0'9. 5 
Adult female. Chestnut shaded brown, with narrow black bars on the 
feathers of the head, neck, body, and wing-coverts. 
Immature of both sexes. Similar in colouring to the adult female. 
Bernier’s Vanga is confined to Madagascar. 
According to Grandidier it is rare and was found by him 
only on the eastern slopes of the great wooded highlands of 
the interior of the island. It was met with in pairs among 
the higher branches of the trees. The male, he remarks, 
has a little plaintive cry and appears to be devoted to its 
mate, for if the female is killed the male follows it in its fall 
to the ground and may be easily captured, while if the male 
is the first victim the female at once seeks safety in flight. 
Genus IV. VANGA. 
Bill blackish, rather long and slender, and much compressed at the 
sides; upper mandible notched and strongly hooked; the bare culmen 
dividing the front of the feathers of the forehead. Back and wings black, 
the latter with a longitudinal white band. Tail, with the basal two-thirds 
grey, remainder black with white ends tothe feathers. Tarsi and feet grey. 
