196 CALICALICUS MADAGASCARIENSIS 
insect food among the upper branches of the high trees; they 
frequently emit a sharp cry, and on being disturbed vanish 
at once in the foliage. They are known to the Betsimisarakas 
as the ‘ Siketri-ala.’”’ 
Genus VI. CALICALICUS. 
Bill black, rather short, compressed beyond the nostrils, hooked, and 
with a distinct notch, nasal apertures overhung by a membrane covered with 
small feathers. Wing structure the same as in the other members of this 
family. Tarsi and feet dark grey. The sexes differ considerably in the male 
only having the front of the head, region of the eye and the throat black. 
Type. 
Calicalicus, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 535, 1854 . . . OC. madagascariensis. 
Hylophorba, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 326. . . C. madagascariensis. 
The genus is confined to Madagascar and comprises only 
one species. 
Calicalicus madagascariensis. 
Lanius madagascariensis, Linn. S. N., i. p. 137 (1766). 
Calicalicus madagascariensis, Milne Edw. and Grand. Hist. Madag. 
Ois. i. p. 440, pls. 164, 1644, figs. 1, 165 (1885); Gadow, Cat. B. M. 
viii. p. 119 (1883); Sibree, Ibis, 1891, p. 440; Shelley, B. Afr. i. 
No. 660 (1896) ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 264 (1903). 
Hylophorba ruticilla, Sclat. P. Z. §. 1865, p. 326, pl. 13, 2. 
Adult male. Front of head, region of eyes and the entire throat black ; 
a narrow white band separates the black of the forehead and sides of the 
head from the crown, widening out over the space between the back of the 
head and throat and extending over the ear-coverts; crown, back of neck 
and the mantle deep ashy grey ; scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, lower back, 
upper tail-coverts, and tail bright chestnut-red, with the two centre tail- 
feathers and tips of the others ashy brown; remainder of the wings dark 
brown, with paler edges to the feathers; breast and under tail-coverts white, 
mottled on the flanks with chestnut-red; under wing-coverts and inner 
edges of the quills white, remainder of quills dark brown. ‘ Iris brown; 
bill black; feet slaty grey’’ (Grandidier). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 
0-45, wing 2°7, tail 2°25, tarsus 0°75. Madagascar g (Crossley). 
Adult female. Differs from the male in having the upper half of the 
head uniform grey, with a white loral band extending round the eye ; throat 
white ; scapulars and wing-coverts ashy grey like the mantle, and the lower 
back ochreous brown. Madagascar ? (Crossley). 
